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A South Carolina police officer is shot and wounded and a suspect is killed
The ambush-style shooting targeted law enforcement; the officer was shot multiple times and released from hospital, while the suspect was killed after a police pursuit, officials said.
- Early Sunday, a Greenville police officer was ambushed and shot while seated in his patrol car, and deputies killed a suspect after a pursuit near Independence Boulevard and Ponders Ray Lane.
- Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said the shooting resembled an ambush-style attack, and authorities requested the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate with no motive released.
- The Greenville County Coroner's Office identified the suspect as David William Lane, 42, and said he received at least one fatal gunshot wound after his car crashed into a large transport vehicle on Roper Mountain Road.
- At 1 p.m. Sunday police said the injured officer was treated at Greenville Memorial Hospital and is now home recovering, with no public threat and a Critical Incident Community Briefing on February 25.
- Investigators found an idling vehicle with a burn spot and remnants of fire extinguishers at the scene, and officials will conduct a complete forensic autopsy to determine the suspect's cause of death.
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A South Carolina police officer is shot and wounded and a suspect is killed
South Carolina authorities are investigating a law enforcement shootout that led to the death of a man believed to have fired multiple gunshots at a police officer.
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