SC deputy pinned down by gunfire bargained for time
By: The Associated Press, policeone.com
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A deputy in South Carolina who was pinned behind his SUV by gunfire for 17 minutes kept talking to the suspect to buy time for backup to arrive, Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis said Wednesday.
Lewis said he can only thank God that the deputy and other officers fired on Tuesday afternoon were not wounded. Deputies killed the suspect, identified by the coroner’s office as 51-year-old Joseph Hart.
“The amount of rounds this guy was firing on deputies and police officers, it is a miracle no one was killed on our side,” Lewis said at a news conference Wednesday.
