Condition of wounded Md. deputy ‘has improved’ – WTOP News

The Calvert County, Maryland, sheriff’s deputy who was wounded in a shootout with a suspect Saturday in Huntingtown is making progress, and “his prognosis has vastly improved,” the Sheriff’s Workplace stated Monday.

Grasp Deputy James Flynt had been in essential situation, Sheriff-elect Ricky Cox stated in an announcement Monday, however “we’re ecstatic to have the ability to say his situation has improved and presently he might be described as secure.”

Flynt has been alert and capable of talk, Cox stated, and was set to bear extra surgical procedure Monday.

He’s nonetheless anticipated to be in intensive take care of an prolonged time.

“Whereas he nonetheless has an extended highway to restoration, his prognosis has vastly improved within the final 24 hours,” Cox stated. “Please proceed to maintain him in your ideas and prayers.”

Flynt was wounded in an alternate of gunfire with Brandon Turner, 21, of Greenbelt, after a chase that started with an tried site visitors cease close to Yellow Financial institution Street in Dunkirk, authorities stated.

Turner allegedly drove off from the site visitors cease, heading south on Route 4 and firing at deputies who have been chasing him.

The chase ended on Walnut Creek Street in Huntingtown, the Sheriff’s Workplace stated. Once they stopped Turner’s automobile, he and his passenger ran off. That’s when Flynt was shot, they stated, including that Turner was shot when different deputies returned hearth.

Turner was arrested on the entrance to the Walnut Creek subdivision. He’s dealing with costs of tried first-degree homicide, first-degree assault, tried second-degree homicide and second-degree assault of a regulation enforcement officer.

The Sheriff’s Workplace is dealing with the investigation themselves. They contacted the lawyer basic’s Unbiased Investigations Division, which usually reply to police shootings. But it surely declined as a result of it not handles incidents that don’t, or aren’t more likely to, outcome within the demise of the suspect, a division spokesman stated.

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