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.
Sgt. John Lenz was shot twice in the chest and once in the face near the cheek. Police said body armor stopped the shots to the chest.
Waterbury officers were taking a suspect in a stolen vehicle investigation into custody when they noticed two SUVs revving their engines and driving at a high speed towards the officers, police said. The SUVs, which later turned out to be stolen, crashed into several police cars.
When they arrived, police say a shooter ambushed the officers by firing several rounds down from the third floor of the apartment complex to the parking lot. One of the officers was shot in the chest.
The round went through his hand and was stopped by the trooper's body armor, preventing additional injury.