EDINBURG, Texas — An Edinburg Police Department officer is in critical but stable condition following emergency surgery after being shot multiple times on Thursday morning, October 29, by a suspect who later died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the department said in an update reported by The Edinburg Advocate.
Source: The Edinburg Advocate, reporting Edinburg Police Department, Oct 30, 2026
The wounded officer is 40 years old and a four-year veteran of the department. Police have not released his name in the reports published so far. Officers rendered emergency medical aid to him at the scene, placed him in a patrol unit and transported him to a local hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery and was listed in critical but stable condition.
Source: Edinburg Police Department via The Edinburg Advocate, Oct 29-30, 2026
What happened on Fig Street
At approximately 9:10 a.m., Edinburg dispatch received a disturbance call in the 200 block of Fig Street. A caller reported that her brother was acting erratically inside an apartment. When the officer arrived, the suspect immediately opened fire, striking the officer multiple times, the department said. Backup units responding to the scene also came under heavy gunfire.
The department's first report on Thursday morning placed the scene at the West Oak Apartments, in the 100 block of West Chapin Street and Bodark Drive, and said the officer had sustained at least one gunshot wound and been taken to hospital, the scene was secured and there was no ongoing threat to the public. The department held a press conference on Thursday at 12:15 p.m., with a city spokesperson confirming the officer had been hospitalised, KRGV reported.
Source: The Edinburg Advocate (early report) and KRGV, Oct 29, 2026
The suspect
The suspect was identified as Daby Tadeo Ledezma, 21, of Edinburg. Police said he was armed with a handgun and rifles. He died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the department — 'apparent' is the department's own word, and the final determination rests with the investigation and the medical examiner. Ledezma was wanted on a probation violation warrant out of North-Central Texas at the time of the shooting, police said.
Two investigations are now running
The Texas Rangers are leading an independent investigation into the shooting — the standard arrangement in Texas when a local officer is involved in a shooting, so that the criminal investigation is handled by an outside agency rather than the department itself. The Edinburg Police Department is also conducting an internal affairs review, which looks at whether department policy was followed. The two tracks answer different questions, and neither has reported findings yet.
Confirmed by the department: the time and place of the call, that the officer was shot multiple times and is critical but stable after surgery, that backup units came under fire, and that the suspect died of an apparent self-inflicted wound. Not yet established in any official report: why the suspect opened fire, the exact sequence inside the apartment, and the wounded officer's longer-term prognosis. This article does not fill those gaps with speculation.
The setting: a Rio Grande Valley department in transition
Edinburg is the county seat of Hidalgo County in the Rio Grande Valley, a heavily Hispanic, fast-growing border region of South Texas where disturbance and family calls are among the most routine — and, as this case shows, among the most dangerous — calls a patrol officer answers. The shooting also came at a moment of change for the department: Chief Jaime Ayala, who took over the Edinburg Police Department in October 2021 after 32 years with the Arlington Police Department, had announced his retirement effective October 30, 2026, the City of Edinburg said — the day after this shooting — with transitional leadership and the search for the next chief to be announced by the city administration.
What happens next
The next facts will come from the Texas Rangers' investigation and from the department's updates on the officer's condition. Police said on Thursday that there is no ongoing threat to the public. Residents near Fig Street and the West Oak Apartments should expect official updates through the Edinburg Police Department rather than social-media accounts, and anyone with information or video from the area on Thursday morning should expect investigators to want it as the Rangers build the timeline of the shooting.