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Police Shooting by State Trooper

123rf.com

A sobriety traffic stop turned violent on Johnson Road in Salisbury Tuesday morning when Maryland State Trooper Richard Keidel pulled over Harry Wyatt-Swift.

Police say after being asked to take a sobriety test Wyatt-Swift got back into his car and started to drive away while holding onto the trooper’s arm.

Authorities say Keidel shot him fearing for his life and hit the driver in the stomach and in the side of his face.

The police report that the suspect let go with the trooper falling to the roadside as the car sped off.

Wyatt-Swift was rushed to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center and then onto Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

The officer sustained injured but was released from PRMC.

(See:Delmarvanow.com)

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.