KING, N.C. — Police shot and killed a person who wounded an officer during a traffic stop in North Carolina early Sunday, according to a police official.
Jordan Boyette, the police chief in King, North Carolina, said the wounded officer was grazed in the head by a bullet and is expected to fully recover.
Police didn’t immediately identify the person who was fatally shot.
The wounded officer was one of two King police officers who stopped a vehicle around 12:40 a.m. The officers exchanged gunfire with one person after several people exited the car and ran, Boyette said.
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Police didn’t immediately specify which officer shot the person who died. The other officer wasn’t injured.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting in King, which is about 16 miles (25 kilometers) northwest of Winston-Salem.
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