PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy in Maryland was shot and critically wounded on Saturday by a suspect who opened fireplace after a visitors cease led to a chase, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a information launch.

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Workplace stated the suspect — Brandon Alexander Turner, 21 of Greenbelt, Maryland — additionally had been shot and had accidents that weren’t thought-about life-threatening.

The deputy, James Flynt, was in crucial situation at a hospital on Sunday, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Turner and an unidentified passenger in his car have been taken into custody. Turner faces costs that embody tried first-degree homicide and second-degree assault of a regulation enforcement officer.

Turner was in steady situation at a hospital, based on the sheriff’s workplace.

The sheriff’s workplace stated Turner drove off after a visitors cease in Dunkirk, Maryland, round 9:30 p.m. and opened fireplace at deputies chasing the car, putting a patrol automobile.

Working away from his car, Turner fired extra rounds and shot the deputy, the discharge stated. Different deputies shot at Turner, who was arrested close to the doorway to a neighborhood, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Flynt is a five-year veteran of the sheriff’s workplace who beforehand served as a correctional deputy on the Calvert County Detention Heart.

Two different deputies concerned within the capturing have been positioned on administrative go away, a typical process.

The sheriff’s workplace is investigating the capturing. The state Lawyer Basic’s workplace was notified of the capturing however declined to take over the investigation “based mostly on an absence of qualifying components,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Calvert County is in southern Maryland, southeast of Washington, D.C.

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