Plano police shootout at Carrollton gas station leaves suspect wounded
Plano officers were watching four burglary suspects when gunfire broke out at a Carrollton RaceTrac, leaving one suspect wounded and two others arrested.
Plano police officers were drawn into a gunfire exchange at a RaceTrac gas station at 4621 International Parkway near Midway Road in Carrollton, where investigators were monitoring four burglary suspects. The confrontation unfolded on Wednesday morning, July 22, 2026, at a site many Collin County commuters know from the busy International Parkway corridor.
Police said the group opened fire on Plano officers, and officers returned fire, striking one suspect. No officers were hurt. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reported that Plano police arrested two suspects at the scene, while another suspect who was shot was expected to be arrested after being released from the hospital.
A Plano Police Department social media update said detectives were monitoring four suspects as part of a burglary investigation. The department said three of the four suspects were juveniles and that their identities and charges would be handled differently because of their ages. The fourth suspect remained hospitalized and would be arrested later.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth described the wounded person as a burglary suspect injured in a shootout with Plano police. A CBS News Texas social media post said four people were in custody after police said a group opened fire on Plano officers at the Carrollton RaceTrac, and a CBS video update said another suspect was hospitalized with an injury unrelated to the shooting.
The setting sharpened the stakes for drivers and nearby businesses along International Parkway. The RaceTrac sits in a commercial stretch between Plano and Carrollton that carries daily traffic from Collin County into Denton County, making the exchange of gunfire a public safety event far beyond a single arrest scene. Carrollton police were part of the local response, but the case centered on Plano detectives tracking the burglary investigation across city lines.
The episode left officers with a detained group, one wounded suspect, and a public record that began with burglary surveillance and escalated into a shooting at a gas station that thousands of North Texas drivers pass every week.
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