GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Gulfport police say an officer was shot in the abdomen while struggling with a man after a traffic stop and foot chase.
Chief Leonard Papania says in a news release that the officer was in guarded but stable condition after surgery Sunday.
He says another officer arrested 21-year-old Corey Donald Johnson, of Gulfport. Johnson has been charged with attempted murder and is being held in lieu of $1 million bond.
It was not clear whether he has an attorney.
Papania says Johnson and another person ran from a car at a traffic stop about 4:20 a.m. Sunday.
The chief has not identified the wounded officer, but says he caught Johnson, who allegedly shot him multiple times.
Johnson had been free on $20,000 bond in a cocaine possession case.
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