CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A man shot at a Virginia police officer Tuesday evening, then fled in a stolen police cruiser and crashed, police said.
Chesapeake police officers responded to a home on Farmer Lane for a report of an armed man who made threats, police said in a news release. When officers found the suspect vehicle, there were several men standing nearby. One of the responding officers recognized one of the men as the person in question, but that man refused to identify himself and an officer tried to arrest him, police said.
The man resisted and an officer pulled out a stun gun, police said. That’s when police said the man pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired three shots at the officer, as the officer stunned him.
The man got into a police cruiser and drove off as other officers arrived. The other officers pursued the stolen cruiser for a few blocks before it crashed and the man was arrested, police said.
Police didn’t fire any shots during the incident and the only injury was a minor injury to the suspect from the stun gun, police said.
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