A suspect police say fired multiple rounds at officers overnight was shot in east Charlotte, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Thursday on the 800 block of Pineborough Road.
Officers were called to reports of a person acting erratically, police said. When they arrived, CMPD said the suspect, later identified as 20-year-old Benny Hall IV, fired multiple shots in the direction of the officers.
“Officers perceived an imminent and deadly threat and returned fire, striking the subject several times,” CMPD said in a release.
Hall was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries. No officers seem to have been hit by the gunfire, CMPD said, but three officers were transported as a precautionary measure.
Police said a gun was found at the scene.
Hall is charged with attempted murder on a law enforcement officer, assault on a government official with a firearm and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
CMPD says Hall’s family had requested an involuntary commitment on Wednesday but was denied by a Mecklenburg County Magistrate.
As part of the standard procedure, the shooting is being investigated by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the investigation.
CMPD said its Internal Affairs Bureau will also conduct a separate but parallel investigation, which is also standard protocol for the department.
Justin Pryor
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