4 CMPD officers injured after their SUVs collide during search for shooting suspect
Four Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers were hospitalized after two police SUVs collided during a search for a shooting suspect’s car late Friday.
The officers were taken to Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries after the collision on Beatties Ford Road near Holly Street, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release. The officers were treated and released, CMPD said.
CMPD identified the officers as Michael Petrillo, Micha Edmunds, Shon Sheffield and Michael Mosher. All are with the CMPD Metro Division.
No citizens were involved or injured in this incident, police said.
“Officers were not involved in a pursuit,” police said in the release, adding that “no community members were involved in the crash.”
Officers were searching for a vehicle wanted in connection with a shooting in the 2200 block of Augusta Street. That’s off Beatties Ford Road in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in north Charlotte.
Police said the shooting victim was taken to the hospital but had not released the person’s name, age and condition as of 6 p.m. Saturday. Police also didn’t say whether they had identified a suspect in the shooting.
The two marked police SUVs were traveling north on Beatties Ford Road with their blue lights and sirens on when the officer driving the lead SUV began to make a U-turn. He and the other officer in the SUV had just heard shots behind them, according to the CMPD release.
The other police SUV hit the driver’s side of the one making the U-turn, causing extensive damage to both and the air bags to be deployed, CMPD said.
This story was originally published October 26, 2019 at 11:51 AM.