An officer was shot during an ambush in the parking lot of police headquarters.
Charlotte, NC – A female police officer was shot in the leg outside of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) on Thursday night when a murder suspect ambushed a group of officers who were standing in the parking lot.
Police said the gunman, 23-year-old Jonathan Bennett, was killed when the officers returned fire.
“He ambushed us,” CMPD Chief Kerr Putney said during a press conference early Friday morning. “He shot at us.”
CMPD had been searching for Bennett since just after 2 p.m., when they discovered the body of his girlfriend, 24-year-old Brittany White, at a residence, WCNC reported.
Investigators believed that Bennett fatally shot White, and that he fled the residence with the couple’s two-month-old daughter, Journei Bennett, according to WSOC. A second child was left inside the residence, and was unharmed.