Charlotte, NC – A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was hospitalized Monday morning after being shot by a 14-year-old gunman, according to police.
The incident occurred as a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officer was responding to a report of a multiple vehicle break-ins in the 6100-block of Winged Elm Court near the Woodland Estates Apartment Homes at approximately 7:20 a.m. on Dec. 27, WBTV reported.
Police said the caller also informed them that the suspect was seen pointing a gun at a resident, according to the news outlet.
Officers arrived at the scene and began chasing after the gunman, who then allegedly opened fire on them, WBTV reported.
One officer was shot in the upper body during the attack, according to police.
At least one officer returned fire before taking the shooter into custody, WBTV reported.
The suspect was not hit by their gunfire, according to police.
The unidentified wounded officer was rushed to Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center, where his injuries were determined to be non-life threatening, WCNC reported.
The officer was expected to be released from the hospital later on Monday, according to WSOC.
Police said the unnamed gunman is a 14-year-old male.
He has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer and robbery, WCNC reported.
A deadly shooting spree across multiple locations in Denver and Lakewood ended on Monday night when the suspect was shot and killed on the streets of Lakewood’s busy Belmar shopping district, officials say.
The suspect is believed to have killed four people and wounded at least three others including a Lakewood police officer who required surgery Monday night, according to John Romero, a Lakewood Police Department spokesman. Romero’s comments about the violence came at a news conference Monday night held just across the street from Belmar, which Lakewood bills as its downtown.
Romero was joined by Denver police Chief Paul Pazen who referred to events of the night as a “killing spree.” The investigation is ongoing but the two police departments believe one unidentified man is to blame.
“We believe this individual was responsible for this very violent series of events that took place in the Denver-metro area,” Pazen said.
Pazen laid out the following summary of events, which he says started around 5 p.m. Monday:
The suspect shot and killed two women and wounded a man near the intersection of East First Avenue and Broadway.
A short time later, the suspect shot and killed a man in the area of East 12th Avenue and Williams Street in Denver’s Cheesman Park neighborhood.
The suspect fired shots near the intersection of West Sixth Avenue and Cherokee Street. No one is believed to have been injured in this shooting near the Denver Health hospital campus.
Denver police spotted what they believed to be the suspect’s vehicle near Eighth Avenue and Zuni Street and tried to pull him over. The suspect exchanged gunfire with officers and a Denver police vehicle was disabled.
From there, it is believed the suspect drove to Lakewood. Police in that city got a call about a shooting inside a business in the 1500 block of Kipling Street near the intersection of Kipling and West Colfax Avenue, Romero said. The victim there died.
Romero said Lakewood police spotted the suspect’s vehicle and tried to make a stop near the Belmar district. The suspect fired at officers who shot back.
The suspect eluded police and then fled on foot, Romero said. He went into two businesses including the Hyatt hotel near the corner of South Vance Street and West Alaska Drive where he shot a clerk, according to Romero. The extent of that person’s injuries was not immediately available Monday night.
Shortly after that, the suspect encountered a Lakewood officer and shot the officer. As of Monday’s evening news conference, that officer was still in surgery, Romero said.
“We just ask everyone in our community for their thoughts and prayers for that agent and their family,” Romero said.
Minneapolis, MN – A Hennepin County jury on Thursday found former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Potter, 48, fatally shot Wright with her duty weapon on April 11 while trying to arrest him on a warrant when she mistook her gun for her Taser.
The judge immediately ordered Potter taken into custody.
Defense attorneys asked the judge to reconsider that decision and release Potter until sentencing because “she’s not going anywhere and she’s not going to commit a crime.”
The state strenuously objected to Potter’s release.
The judge ultimately upheld her ruling and ordered the former police officer taken into custody direct from the courtroom and held without bail.
Potter’s sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 18.
The 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Park police department could be sentenced to a maximum of 25 years in prison.
The jury, made up of six men and six women, deliberated for more than 26 hours before rendering its verdict.
The Jury was hung and decided on this to get out before the holidays. She will appeal and hopefully this travesty will be reversed. Those jurors are a disgrace!
Two Democrats who support police reforms are both CARJACKED just hours apart: Rep. Mary Scanlon is robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia and Illinois Senator Kimberly Lightford and her husband are carjacked in Chicago
Democratic Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, 62, was robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia’s FDR Park on Wednesday afternoon 16 hours after Illinois State Senator Kimberly Lightford, 53, and her husband, Eric McKennie, were also carjacked on Tuesday night in a suburb 20 minutes outside of Chicago. Both women supported police reform policies last year following the Black Lives Matter movement, with both co-sponsoring a bill in their respective offices to allow mental health specialists to be dispatched as first responders instead of police officers. Lightford, the Illinois Black Caucus chairwoman, had also previously supported cutting police budgets in the state, with Chicago proposing to slash $59 million from their police department’s budget.
BLUE PRAYER REQUEST: A Burton police officer and a Genesee County sheriff’s deputy are both in critical condition after a suspect opened fire on them during a foot chase on Tuesday afternoon.The incident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. on Dec. 21 in the area of Saginaw Street and Bristol Road on Burton’s west side, WJRT reported.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said the Burton police officer and the Genesee County sheriff’s deputy responded to a call about shots fired. Leyton said that when the officer and deputy arrived on the scene, they spotted a man matching the description of the suspect and chased him on foot, WJRT reported.The suspect tried to climb a fence as he was fleeing but it collapsed, according to the prosecutor.The officer and the deputy were trying to pull the fence off of the suspect when he opened fire on them, shooting each of them multiple times, WJRT reported.Leyton said both law enforcement officers returned fire and shot the suspect multiple times
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