SC police: York County deputy shot armed domestic violence suspect near Rock Hill
A York County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot an armed suspect at a domestic violence call Saturday morning, South Carolina police officials said.
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m., at a home on Steen Circle in the Lesslie community southeast of Rock Hill, said Trent Faris, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
Tommy Crosby, spokesman for the State Law Enforcement Division, said SLED agents are investigating.
Shots were fired after a confrontation between the suspect and the deputy responding to the call, Crosby said.
“The suspect had two firearms in his possession during the incident,” Crosby said. “The man was shot during the incident.”
The man was injured and was taken to a hospital for treatment, Crosby said. The deputy was not hurt, he said.
The sheriff’s office called SLED because a police officer was involved, Faris said.
Other details about the shooting have not yet been released.
The home where the shooting happened is near the Lesslie Fire Department, off Neely Store Road.
The incident was the 32nd officer involved shooting in South Carolina in 2020, according to SLED. In 2019, there were 45 officer involved shootings in South Carolina.
One of those 2019 police shootings involved York County deputies, according to SLED and sheriff’s office officials. In that June 2019 incident a suspect was shot by deputies after two men were killed by the suspect in an earlier incident in the day, police said in 2019.
This story was originally published September 12, 2020 at 2:14 PM with the headline "SC police: York County deputy shot armed domestic violence suspect near Rock Hill."
