MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A man accused of shooting and wounding a Brooklyn Park police officer has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Tyrice Laws, 38, of Crystal, is also charged with first-degree assault of a police officer, violating an order for protection while possessing a firearm and possession of a firearm while the subject of an order for protection.
Laws is scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday.
The shooting happened Friday after two Brooklyn Park police officers found Laws in a vehicle outside a home where they were responding to a disturbance. Laws shot his gun five or six times at one of the officers, firing the first shot when he was 5 to 7 feet away, the complaint states. Both officers returned fire.
The officer was treated for two gunshot wounds.
Laws ran away but was caught after a search. Police said that’s when authorities discovered Laws was also wounded.
Brooklyn Park is a city about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis.
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