Police: Man who shot officer during carjacking is captured

Police: Man who shot officer during carjacking is captured

man who attempt a badge administrator who was aggravating to stop him from carjacking a woman was arrested on Monday, and accuse were awaiting adjoin him and addition man who was with him, authorities said.

Officer James McCullough was attempt already in the larboard leg on Sunday night and was appear from the hospital Monday evening.

The administrator and his accomplice were flagged down by a woman who appear getting carjacked by two men at gunpoint, badge Capt. James Clark said.

The men were still with the car, and McCullough grappled briefly with one of them afore both fled on foot, Clark said. The admiral pursued, and one man angry and attempt McCullough in the leg, he said. The administrator alternate blaze but didn't hit the man, again he activated a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and was apprenticed to a hospital by his partner.

A brace of account afore the carjacking, the men allegedly beggared addition man at gunpoint and took several items from him, Clark said. That bent up with the bandit who hadn't accursed at badge as he fled the carjacking website against a alteration station, Clark said.

"He in fact ran accomplished the aboriginal individual, who he had robbed, and his friends, who bent up with him (and) physically chastened him until the badge came to arrest him," Clark said.

The added man was arrested the next day. Undercover narcotics admiral spotted him, arrested him afterwards adventure and recovered a gun, Clark said.

The administrator who was attempt did "an actually outstanding job" in traveling afterwards the men, grappling with one and giving hunt afore getting shot, the badge captain said.

"It acutely could accept been a lot worse, and we're actual blessed that it was not a abundant added austere abrasion to the badge officer," he said.

Ballistics tests were getting run on the weapon recovered from the men, but badge accept it was the gun acclimated to shoot the officer, Clark said. The ballista has a diffuse almanac with 14 arrests, he said.

"He is a alarming individual, obviously," Clark said. "We're actual blessed to get him off the streets as bound as we did."

Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. alleged the case an archetype of the dangers admiral face daily.

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