After two suspects were involved in a kidnapping in Dallas, they allegedly committed a burglary in Anna before fleeing to Oklahoma, where they shot at police, who ultimately arrested them.
David Pulling, a 31-year-old from Maryland, and Luzmaria Velazquez Perez, a 36-year-old from Oregon, allegedly committed a kidnapping in Dallas on November 18, before a burglary in Anna the following day, then a shooting at the police in Oklahoma. They reportedly fled officers, then flipped a stolen truck before police finally arrested them.
Anna Sgt. Chad Butler told The Dallas Express that Pulling and Perez were at an Oklahoma hospital, in stable condition, at the time of publication. The suspects were set to face burglary of a habitation charges in Anna.
An “unknown suspect” broke into an Anna home near 1800 Black Willow Way around 3 a.m. November 19, according to a release from the Anna Police Department. The suspect allegedly committed a burglary, then fled.
“We received a call, all of our units responded,” Butler said. “We began to set a perimeter, and saturate the area to see if we could locate a suspect.”
Night shift officers deployed a drone with the Unmanned Aerial Operations Unit and found the suspect had left the area.
“We were unable to locate any suspect during that time,” Butler said.
That morning, Butler said, detectives began working the scene. They canvassed the neighborhood, knocking on doors, leaving cards, and searching for video or any other clues. According to the release, the Criminal Investigations Division met with the victim and began narrowing down potential suspects.
A Flock Safety camera in the Creekside subdivision flagged a stolen car entering the neighborhood, leaving 40 minutes later. Officers responded, but could not find the suspects.
The Dallas Police Department informed Anna police that the suspect’s truck – which was stolen – was tied to an aggravated kidnapping from the previous day.
By reviewing Flock camera images, investigators found the suspects had replaced the stolen truck’s plates with those from a similar Ford truck in the neighborhood. That night, officers took a report of a stolen plate.
“They went in and left early that morning from Anna and continued north into Oklahoma,” Butler told The Dallas Express.
A Flock camera in Calera, Oklahoma, captured the truck twice around 10 a.m., according to Butler.
“We didn’t determine that they had been up there until later in the day, so we knew they were somewhere still in Oklahoma, but not exactly sure where,” he said.
Then, outside Atoka, Oklahoma, in the small town of Tushka, local police tried to pull over the suspects for a traffic violation.
“The kid gets out there to try to pull them over, to stop and talk to them about this traffic violation,” Butler said. “They take off.”
The Atoka Police Department, Atoka County Sheriff’s Office, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol began chasing the vehicle, according to Butler.
“He wound up out-driving the limits of his vehicle, and he wound up crashing out,” he said.
Police chased the vehicle through Atoka on Highway 3 when the suspect crashed into a storage building at the Shady Oaks trailer park, according to a release from the Atoka sheriff’s office.
“The suspect fired shots at law enforcement on two different occasions,” the sheriff’s office said. No officers reported injuries.
Responders flew the suspect and passenger to a trauma center for treatment.
“The suspect was driving a stolen vehicle out of Dallas and it is believed that he has multiple warrants out of several states,” the sheriff’s office said. “Be warned, if you run from the police in our county you will be caught, and it never ends good for you.”
After the crash, police recovered guns used against officers and property stolen in the Anna burglary, according to Anna police. Butler said he did not know why Pulling and Perez were in Texas.
Anna police officials thanked their own officers, and all groups involved – Flock Safety, Dallas police, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Atoka police, and the Tushka Police Department.
“Our detectives and patrol division worked really hard on this,” Butler said. “They really came together, and we joined forces with other agencies to make this happen.”
