Suspected Home Depot Gunman captured!

Authorities arrested Armando Luis Juarez, 29, who faces multiple charges of aggravated assault on a police officer in the shootings at the Lake Highlands store. He also had an oustanding felony theft warrant, Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall said.

Juarez had been spotted in southeast Dallas driving the truck he’d reportedly fled the Home Depot in. Officers pursued him to a neighborhood near Love Field, where he was swarmed by dozens of officers about 9:15 p.m.

A  woman with him was also taken into custody. Her name has not been released.

“I want to thank our Dallas police tonight,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said late Tuesday. “They’ve taken a punch, and they’ve come out fighting.”

Juarez originally had been described as a person of interest in the shootings, which occurred about 4:15 p.m.

An off-duty police officer working at the Home Depot near U.S. Highway 75 and Forest Lane had called for assistance after detaining a man, said Hall, who did not explain why he was being held.

When police arrived, the detained man “produced a handgun” and shot the responding officers and the store’s loss-prevention officer, police said. The off-duty officer was not wounded.

The three victims were taken to Texas Health Presbyterian of Dallas, where they underwent surgery Tuesday night. Officials declined to release their names or detail their injuries.

Hall did not explain how the suspect obtained a gun but believed he was still armed as authorities began searching for him in a wooded area and creek near the store.