Grand Prairie police ask public for help finding ‘person of interest’ in homicide case

Grand Prairie police are asking the public for help locating a person they say is connected to the shooting death of a man last week.

Officers responded about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday to a reported shooting in the 300 block of South Center Street and found a man in a parking lot with gunshot wounds, police spokesperson Mark Beseda said in a Monday news release.

Detectives determined the alleged shooter and the person shot were “involved in an altercation” and “the disturbance escalated” prior to the shooting, according to a news release. Police said the shooter fled the area prior to officers’ arrival and was not located.

The man who was shot was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Beseda said. The Dallas County medical examiner’s office identified the man as 28-year-old Jessie Hernandez Ibarra and ruled the manner of death as a homicide, records show.

Over the weekend, detectives identified Jose Alberto Sanchez, 24, as a “person of interest” in the case. Police are asking anyone with information on Sanchez’s whereabouts to call the Grand Prairie police at 972-237-8700.