2 Officers Stable After Being Shot the Day After Christmas

Two Mint Hill, North Carolina, officers are in stable condition after being shot Friday morning at an Edible Arrangements on a child custody call just east of Uptown Charlotte. Stephen Leonardi/Pexels WYFF reported the officers responded to a call around 10:45 a.m. They were interacting with a male subject when he allegedly produced a gun and began shooting, leading to an exchange of gunfire. WBTV 3 noted that the man who pulled the gun was killed in the shootout, and both officers are now stable. Kevin Phayme manages Empire Pizza, which is across the street from Edible Arrangements, and he witnessed the injured officers, saying, “Everything happened so quickly, just seeing an officer with blood on his hands and another one down. Our hearts go out to them because they come to Empire Pizza often and they frequent here so our prayers go out to them and their families.” AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused o n al l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and holds a PhD in Military History with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram:

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