GREENVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina police officer was shot and wounded while sitting in his patrol car Sunday in what one official called an \u201cambush-style attack,\u201d and local sheriff’s deputies later shot and killed a suspect in a shootout, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Greenville police officer was repeatedly shot early Sunday, the city of Greenville said in a statement. The officer was treated at a hospital and was released, the city said.<\/p>\n
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis described the shooting as an \u201cambush-style attack\u201d in a video from the scene posted on Facebook. Lewis said that authorities identified a suspect and pursued his vehicle, leading to \u201can exchange of gunfire.\u201d <\/p>\n
The suspect received \u201cat least one fatal gunshot wound,\u201d the Greenville County Coroner’s Office said in a statement. It identified the person as David William Lane, 42, of Greenville.<\/p>\n
Relatives of Lane could not be reached Sunday for comment.<\/p>\n
The Greenville Police Department did not respond to questions from The Associated Press about a possible motive for the attack or the identity of the officer who was shot.<\/p>\n
The city said authorities asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to conduct an investigation and that the Greenville Police Department is \u201cfully cooperating.\u201d <\/p>\n
Greenville, with a population of around 70,000, is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of the state capital of Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina police officer was shot and wounded while sitting in his patrol car…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[228023,347,57,2936,50,3677,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-509839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-228023","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-law-enforcement","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-shootings","15":"tag-u-s-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115879788068256985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}