Affidavit: Broken ankle, fake name led police to Deep Ellum mass shooting suspect

The Brief

  • Dallas police used a tip about a broken ankle to track down 31-year-old David Yancy, the suspect in a Deep Ellum mass shooting.
  • Yancy used a fake name while seeking treatment at Baylor Medical Center shortly after the shooting, an affidavit says.
  • Yancy surrendered to the Dallas Police Fugitive Unit at a Garland apartment on Nov. 4 after seeing himself on FOX 4’s “Trackdown.”

DALLAS – A tip about a broken ankle and a hospital visit under a fake name led Dallas police to the man they say shot seven people in Deep Ellum on Halloween night.

Tracking down the suspect

What we know:

On Nov. 1, around 1:02 a.m., Dallas police responded to a shootout in a parking lot at 2626 Main St. …

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