Cowardly bushwhacker.
Via WBTV:
A man was arrested Tuesday and charged with shooting a police officer in Statesville Friday night.
According to police, two officers were on routine foot patrol around Raleigh Avenue and Fifth Street around 11 p.m. Friday when someone stepped out of the shadows behind them and fired multiple rounds in the officers’ direction.
Officer Tyler Horn was shot once in the back and taken to Iredell Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released early Saturday morning.
Officials say it was Officer Horn’s bulletproof vest that may have saved his life, as it took the brunt of the shot.
On Tuesday, officers arrested 21-year-old Keith Eugene Lackey and charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, two counts assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and discharging a firearm in the city limits.