Video: Dallas Police Release Body Cam Footage From Weekend Deep Ellum Shooting

A 22-year-old man died, and police shot an armed man after fights broke out between two groups on a Canton Street parking lot.

By Patrick Williams

July 9, 2025

Image: An image from Dallas police Officer Luis Garza-Fuantos's body camera capture the moment before he fired once at Tevin Valentine, who police found armed at the scene of a shooting in Deep Ellum on July 5 that left one man dead and several others wounded.

An image from Dallas police Officer Luis Garza-Fuantos's body camera capture the moment before he fired once at Tevin Valentine, who police found armed at the scene of a shooting in Deep Ellum on July 5 that left one man dead and several others wounded. Dallas Police Department

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Dallas police released body cam footage from an officer-involved shooting that took place over the weekend at a parking lot on Canton Street in Deep Ellum. One man died and four others were wounded in an exchange of gunfire that broke out as two groups of people fought. One armed man was shot by a DPD officer, suffering non-life-threatening wounds.

Police say several fights broke out on the lot at 2:20 a.m., July 5. Five minutes later, a victim with multiple gunshot wounds flagged down a passing patrol car. Police converged on the parking lot and found a second gunshot victim and began to treat him.
"Two officers then saw 19-year-old Tevin Valentine with a gun in his hand, standing over a man lying on the ground," according to a police statement. "Additional responding officers started CPR on the man, later identified as 22-year-old Caylen Fritz.

"Officer Luis Garza-Fuantos and another officer gave loud verbal commands to Valentine to put down his gun. Instead, Valentine started running and pointed the handgun in the direction of Officer Garza-Fuantos.

"Officer Garza-Fuantos then fired one round from his patrol rifle, hitting Valentine, causing Valentine to fall to the ground and drop the gun."

Fritz later died at the hospital.

Police found several guns at the scene and say the one Valentine at Garza-Fuantos was reported stolen in University Park in 2022.

Patrick Williams is editor-in-chief of the Dallas Observer. Before joining the staff in July 1997, Patrick worked for the Southern Illinoisan, Amarillo Globe News and San Antonio Express-News. As editor-in-chief, he oversees the newsroom and guides the coverage of both the Dallas Observer’s printed publication and online website.

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