A brawl broke out on Sunday night near a Frisco apartment complex, leaving several people with stab wounds.
Frisco police responded to reports of a fight in the parking lot of Fox Haven Apartments in the 7200 block of Hickory Street on October 1. Officers arrived to find several people bleeding from what appeared to be wounds from a knife.
Some were driven to the hospital in private vehicles, while others were transported by first responders.
The authorities reported that the investigation into the incident is still ongoing and that the situation presented no further risk to the public. The names of the injured, the status of their injuries, and potential motives behind the incident have yet to be revealed.
Assaults across Dallas continue to rise, especially in certain downtown districts, as recently covered in The Dallas Express.
Council Member Adam Bazaldua’s District 7 saw the highest number of assault offenses in August, with 244 logged. This was followed by Council Member Jesse Moreno’s District 2, with 237.
While Downtown leads the pack, several other council districts saw more than 200 assault offenses in August, including Council Member Tennell Atkins’ District 8 with 211, Council Member Omar Narvaez’s District 6 with 206, and Council Member Carolyn King Arnold’s District 4 with 202.
A study from the Metroplex Civic and Business Association conducted earlier this year found that Downtown Dallas regularly records significantly more crime than Fort Worth’s downtown area.
While Fort Worth tasks a dedicated police unit and a team of private security guards with patrolling its center, the City of Dallas struggles to hire and retain its officers.
As a result, the Dallas Police Department currently has a force of just 3,200 sworn officers, despite a City report previously indicating that a force of 4,000 — a ratio of around three officers for every 1,000 residents — was needed to adequately police residents.
DPD’s increasing response times have reflected this difficulty, as recently covered in The Dallas Express. The most urgent calls took an average of 11.3 minutes for officers to respond as of October 2, whereas the goal stated in the aforementioned City report is 8 minutes.
Meanwhile, Dallas continues to grow more violent, with aggravated assaults citywide totaling 5,086 and criminal homicides 195 as of October 2, according to the City’s crime analytics dashboard.