#Police officer ambushed driver

Officer Charleston Hartfield was killed while attending the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip, the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. The last time a Metro officer was fatally shot in the line of duty was on Oct. Deputy Chief Jamie Prosser silently teared up on the side of the room while Lombardo spoke. Lombardo declined to provide more details on the domestic disturbance.Īssistant Sheriffs Andrew Walsh and John McGrath and Las Vegas Police Protective Association President Steve Grammas stood behind the sheriff during the morning briefing with their heads hanging low. Police said the civilian who was shot was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. His initial arraignment is set for Friday morning in Las Vegas Justice Court.

Online records show that Hampton was booked Thursday evening into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of open murder with a deadly weapon, four counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, two counts involving the unlawful discharge of a firearm, one count of battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, and one count of domestic battery. Hampton was arrested with the help of a Metro K-9 unit near South Eastern Avenue and East Desert Inn Road. When Thai and another officer arrived in the area, 24-year-old Tyson Hampton opened fire, striking Thai and a civilian before driving off, police said. to South University Center Drive and East Flamingo Road after a report of a domestic disturbance, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Department. Officers were initially called around 1 a.m. The incident demonstrates the dangers our officers face every day just putting on the uniform and doing their job.” We will be helping them in any way we can in the following days. “I was at the hospital early this morning with his ex-wife and his daughter,” Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Thursday, choking up. He had been with the Metropolitan Police Department since 1999. Officer Truong Thai, 49, died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center from a gunshot wound to the torso. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal) veteran Las Vegas police officer who coached girls volleyball and had a passion for boating was fatally shot Thursday while responding to a domestic disturbance near UNLV. Harrison used his Taser, arrested the man and took him to jail, authorities said.Las Vegas police investigate the scene on East Flamingo Road after a shooting that fatally wounded a Las Vegas police officer on Thursday, Oct.

#Police officer ambushed driver

The driver refused to identify himself and the interaction escalated when the man pushed Harrison. On Friday afternoon, Harrison approached a driver in the parking lot of the Circle K convenience store across from the police department after he observed a traffic violation, authorities said. Harrison was also a firefighter and paramedic, the station says. Before becoming a police officer, he had jobs with the east Dublin, Georgia police and an Oklahoma Drug Task Force.

Harrison 26, was in law enforcement since 2018, reports CBS Macon affiliate WMAZ-TV. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 43-year-old Damien Anthony Ferguson has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Officer Dylan Harrison outside the Alamo Police Department early Saturday. Alamo, Georgia - A man accused of gunning down a Georgia police officer during his first shift with the department ambushed him in retaliation for the officer's arrest of an associate hours earlier, authorities said Sunday evening.