EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas officers on Friday shot and injured a man who authorities say struck a deputy with his vehicle outside the sheriff’s office and threatened to shoot officers inside.
The El Dorado News-Times reported that multiple deputies were placed on paid administrative leave while the Union County Sheriff’s Office and Arkansas State Police investigate the incident.
Union County Sheriff Ricky Roberts told the newspaper that officers approached the man who was in the parking lot of the sheriff’s office after he made the threats. The man drove toward the approaching officers and struck Chief Deputy Charlie Phillips, Roberts said.
Deputies fired at the man and struck him in the arm, causing him to crash into a sheriff’s office employee’s vehicle in the lot. Roberts declined to release the man’s name, but said he had been treated and was in custody. Roberts declined to name the deputies placed on leave or the officer who shot the man.
Phillips planned to seek medical attention after speaking with State Police investigators, Roberts said.
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