The suspect who exchanged gunfire with a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, policeman Thursday on St. Paul Avenue had previously been in trouble.
He was accused of stealing vehicles and running from law enforcement, WISN reported Friday.
Officers responding to the scene learned 26-year-old Officer Herb Davis had been shot multiple times.
He was dispatched to the location to check on an individual slumped on the steering wheel of a truck.
“You go to a check on the welfare, and now you’re fighting for your life,” Milwaukee police Chief Jeffrey Norman commented.
Authorities said the man inside the vehicle shot Davis, but Davis returned fire and hit the man, whom officers explained then fled in the squad car.
The WISN report continued:
Surveillance video shows the stolen squad car speeding away from a couple of angles, heading east on St. Paul Avenue. Moments later, it crashed at 17th…
