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Man armed with axe and gun threatens and damages vehicle near Tyler bridge, Tyler TX

Weapons

Reported: 12/8/2025 02:01 PM

E Gentry Pkwy, Tyler, TX 75702

A man armed with an axe and a gun threatened a caller and struck the caller's vehicle near East Gentry Parkway under a bridge in Tyler. The man then drove away from the scene.

Audio|Heard on: Smith County Sheriff, Tyler Police, and Tyler Fire

Listen to dispatch call

01:44

Transcript:

00:00

The officer to a possible assault just occurred at the 1100 block of East Gentry in the Tent City underneath the bridge.

00:09

Clars that lies in it,

00:10

a male,

00:13

a camera,

00:15

clothing, and a hat, wearing a backpack.

00:18

It has an axe.

00:19

It's just threatening the caller in his vehicle.

00:24

Correction, hit the caller's vehicle with the axe.

00:31

I got back into his car, it's going to be the brown Kia Sportage.

00:40

Can the caller drive away?

00:43

We're asking him to do that.

00:51

The caller is advising this male that has the axe also has a gun in his pocket.

01:00

He is driving away now, back towards the bridge.

01:04

He was kind of behind Super 1 where this happened.

01:11

Careful.

01:12

Now, units going to this assault, just be advised, the caller's not really making a lot of sense.

01:18

We could hear another male yelling at the beginning, so I believe there was actually another person there.

01:25

But if he's saying that this person blocked the railroad, or the road with a railroad tie, so he couldn't leave, he's now talking about washing his hands and getting a bottle of water.

01:34

I can see on Rapid SOS, he's now underneath the bridge, the Beacon Bridge.

01:40

So he is actually... moving away from where it happened.

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Location mentioned:

E Gentry Pkwy, Tyler, TX 75702

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