A brush with death landed a Sunrise Police officer and an attempted murder suspect in the hospital, pulling through after a fierce confrontation in Fort Lauderdale.
Officials stated that the officer, whose identity remains under wraps, suffered a leg wound during a skirmish that unfolded Jan. 2. The officer was executing a warrant against 31-year-old Romuliss Hicks, a man accused of savagely attacking his girlfriend, according to WSVN.
It was on Northwest 22nd Avenue, in the broad daylight of 2:30 p.m. chaos erupted, bullets flew. The lawman was struck, and Hicks, too, took a bullet before both men were whisked away to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment.
As per the details of a warrant obtained by NBC6, the altercation between Hicks and his girlfriend escalated from a verbal quarrel to physical violence. Hicks allegedly pursued her the following day, firing shots that would slice through her arm, her shoulder and attempted to flee with her automobile. The girlfriend later recollected the horrific incident, “she thought that she was going to be killed by Hicks."
Fate would have it, weeks after the shooting, the officer has returned home, his service and survival emblematic of a perilous duty shouldered by those who don the badge.
