Officer Cullen Stafford with the Birmingham Police Department responded to a report of a robbery in progress, upon arrival the suspect open fired on the responding officers, severely wounding Officer Stafford. The suspect is dead. Officer Stafford is out of surgery and in recovery.
According to FoxNews an Alabama police officer was shot and wounded and a suspect was killed after an armed robbery at a local convenience store turned into a deadly shootout Wednesday night.
Police were dispatched to the 500 block of 23rd St. N. in downtown Birmingham at about 6:30 p.m. amid reports of an armed robbery in progress at a convenience store, Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith told reporters.
Once on the scene, officers said they saw a man fleeing the area that matched the description of the suspect involved. Smith said the officers encountered the man and attempted to stop him when he pulled out a handgun and began firing.
He fired several rounds and struck Officer Cullen Stafford “multiples times.”
Stafford was seriously injured as fellow officers put him in a police cruiser and rushed him to University of Alabama Hospital’s Trauma Center, roughly 2 miles from the initial scene, WBRC reported.
Smith said that back up was called in and the suspect “further engaged” police at three different locations. Officers fired “multiple rounds” at the suspect and he was eventually fatally shot near…
Please join me in uplifting Officer Cullen Stafford and his family this evening as he undergoes surgery for injuries sustained in an evening shooting.
— Randall Woodfin (@randallwoodfin) July 18, 2019
