UPDATED at 6:02 a.m. Monday: Updated with the shooting suspect’s name.
Wise County and Rhome authorities are looking for a suspect who they say shot a police officer in the leg Sunday night.
Sheriff’s deputies and Rhome police officers pulled over two people on a motorcycle near the intersection of Farm-to-Market roads 407 and 2264 Sunday evening, Wise County Sheriff Lance Akin told KXAS-TV (NBC5).
One person on the motorcycle matched the description of a suspect in a home invasion Saturday evening, Akin said.
Akin told NBC5 that the driver of the motorcycle got off the bike and fired “a couple of shots” at officers. A Rhome police officer was struck in the leg and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, NBC5 reported.
Akin identified the driver as Royce Wood, 43, NBC5 reported.
Wood ran away on foot and police are still searching for him, NBC5 said. A woman, the passenger of the motorcycle, was taken into custody.
No further information was available.
