SBXVII
12-09-2011, 02:50 PM
While VA Tech was going through their catastrophy, another officer was shot yesterday...
Police-Involved Shooting on I-95 South | NBC Washington (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Involved-Shooting-on-I-95-South-135272263.html)
A Virginia State trooper and a suspect were injured in a shooting on southbound Interstate 95 near mile marker 116 near the Caroline-Spotsylvania county line.
Trooper M.H. Hamer responded to a report about a pedestrian on the highway. After Hamer put the pedestrian in the patrol vehicle, a struggle ensued and both were shot.
Hamer suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was transported by ambulance to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. He is stable after surgery.
EDIT: Oops sorry left this part out:
The pedestrian was flown to Mary Washington Hospital with life-threatening gunshot injuries.
Police-Involved Shooting on I-95 South | NBC Washington (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Involved-Shooting-on-I-95-South-135272263.html)
A Virginia State trooper and a suspect were injured in a shooting on southbound Interstate 95 near mile marker 116 near the Caroline-Spotsylvania county line.
Trooper M.H. Hamer responded to a report about a pedestrian on the highway. After Hamer put the pedestrian in the patrol vehicle, a struggle ensued and both were shot.
Hamer suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was transported by ambulance to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. He is stable after surgery.
EDIT: Oops sorry left this part out:
The pedestrian was flown to Mary Washington Hospital with life-threatening gunshot injuries.