CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Update: Police have charged the suspect they said fired shots at an officer Friday morning on Wilkinson Boulevard.
Officials charged Darryll Douglas Clay, 32, with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, common law robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest on Saturday.
Police said Clay was transferred to the custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office after being interviewed and released from the hospital.
The investigation is still ongoing.
Update: Police caught the suspect they said fired shots at an officer Friday morning in West Charlotte.
Channel 9 looked into the suspect's past and found he's tried to hurt officers on more than one occasion.
According to police, Darrell Clay's arrest record at the Mecklenburg County Jail includes violent behavior toward officers.
Police said Clay is being treated for an illness at Carolinas Medical Center before they charge him in connection to the Friday incident.
Police said the 32-year-old shot at Officer Michelle Brcik. She spotted his truck on Wilkinson Boulevard and later realized it had been involved in home invasions earlier in the week, according to investigators.
Police said Clay attempted to get away by firing one shot at the officer before she fired back.
He ran across the street with his weapon drawn, and attempted to carjack at least two vehicles during the chase.
After that didn't work officers tracked him down.
The incident Friday happened almost one month to the day after Clay was arrested for trying to run over an officer with his car at the North Carolina Music Factory, according to arrest records.
His record includes three other counts of resisting an officer from arrest in July and in January, among other theft and drug arrests.
Officers said despite Clay's attempts to inflict harm Friday everyone who came across his path at the scene is OK.
Brcik was taken to the hospital.
The police chief said she hurt her hand when she fell during the confrontation with Clay.
She's been with the police department since 2007.
An officer and a man exchanged gunfire during a stop Friday morning on Wilkinson Boulevard, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said an officer confronted a man in a stolen truck that had broken down and the suspect fired a shot at the officer. The incident happened around 10:30 a.m.
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Police said Officer Michelle Brcik was helping the motorist with the disabled vehicle when she recognized that the truck had been stolen during a home invasion last week.
Putney said when Brcik got out of her patrol car, the suspect got out of the truck with a gun. Police identified the suspect as Darryll Douglas Clay, 32.
“An altercation ensued. The officer deployed a Taser. The suspect ran away, so the Taser was ineffective,” he said.
Putney said very quickly the confrontation escalated.
“There was an exchange of gunfire. We know our officer fired at least one shot, and according to the accounts at this point, the suspect fired at least one shot,” he said.
Putney said Brcik was not hit, but hurt her hand when she fell.
Clay tried to carjack two other drivers before he ran into the woods on the other side of Wilkinson Boulevard to try and get away, and the neighborhood was quickly overrun with patrol cars, officials said.
“Then when the second one came I really knew something was happening and I heard the helicopters and I said, yeah, something's happening,” Trice Starks said.
She was there as paramedics put the suspect on a stretcher and wheeled him to an ambulance to be examined, but Putney said he did not believe the suspect was injured.
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The department's Internal Affairs Bureau will conduct an investigation, which is standard with any officer-involved shooting. The officer will be placed on paid administrative leave.
Brcik has been a member of the CMPD since Sept. 24, 2007, and was assigned to patrol in the Metro Division.
Clay is hospitalized at Carolinas Medical Center for an illness that is unrelated to this incident. Upon his release, he will be charged for his involvement in this case, police said.
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