Hillsborough County, Florida, Sheriff's Deputy Kalin Hall was released from the hospital Saturday. He was run over and seriously injured during a traffic stop Friday.Hillsborough County SO
"I’m incensed that any human being would inflict this type of violence against another human being in our wonderful, special Tampa Bay community. I’m absolutely incensed that this bad guy had zero regard for human life," Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said during a press conference Tuesday.
According to Chronister, Deputy Kalin Hall was working overtime to take part in HCSO’s impaired driver operation during the Fourth of July holiday when he was run over during a traffic stop Friday, ABC 13 reports.
Chronister said Hall got out of his car and the suspect driving a BMW put the vehicle in gear and hit the gas, intentionally striking Hall, and running him over.
After he fled the traffic stop, the suspect—identified by authorities as identified as 24-year-old William Todd Lewis, Jr.—reportedly called his girlfriend who called his mother.
Lewis ditched the BMW, and his mother reportedly picked him up and drove him home.
Lewis was charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, possession of cannabis more than 20 grams, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury, reckless driving with serious bodily injury, aggravated fleeing to elude serious bodily injury or death, fleeing to elude a police officer.
Lewis’ girlfriend, Keilise Garrison, 23, was also arrested. She was charged with accessory after the fact. She deleted all her text messages, so she was also charged with tampering with physical evidence.
Deputy Hall is recovering at home after being treated at Tampa General Hospital for a leg that was broken in two places, a broken ankle, and a stress fracture in the other leg.
