As officers closed on the suspect, the suspect turned and fired multiple times at one of the officers, Chief Doug Stephens said.
Clay County Sheriff Jeff Lyde said the deputy was "slightly wounded but will be OK.
After an hours-long search police fatally shot the suspect. The suspect reportedly shot at an officer and the officer returned fire, killing the suspect.
The officers got out of the car to investigate — at which time the man pulled “a firearm, turns on the officers and begins to shoot,” Shea said.
The officer was hit in his vest as officers arrived at the apartment shortly after 9 p.m. and the suspect fired through the door, the sources said. Another officer was grazed in the leg, police said.
A short time later, at least one of the two people involved began shooting at the officers. One of the officers returned fire. The suspects and the deputy and officer were hit.
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The suspect is wanted in Mississippi on an assault with a deadly weapon charge. Officers said the man was found to have been hit during the exchange of fire with officers and he has a non-life threatening injury.
“An exchange of gunfire occurred, during which a Charleston police officer was shot in the chest area and transported to the hospital,” Chief Luther Reynolds said. “That officer was wearing a ballistic vest."
The 27-year-old officer was responding to a domestic dispute in Crown Heights just after 9 p.m. when the gunman opened fire, police sources said.
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