A Whitfield County, Ga., deputy is under investigation after shooting a man the deputy said tried to run him over with a truck to avoid arrest.
Roy Anthony Pangle, 35, was shot in the upper torso Wednesday night and taken to Erlanger hospital, where he is listed in stable condition, authorities say. He has been charged with aggravated assault, Whitfield County Maj. John Gibson said.
Gibson said officers were called to a home in Dawnville, Ga., after Pangle broke into his estranged wife’s house and was threatening to hurt her. Pangle also disturbed his neighbor’s house on Mitchell Bridge Drive, Gibson said, then got in his four-wheel-drive truck and fired a handgun out the window.
When Deputy Phillip Bishop arrived, Pangle pinned the deputy against some trees with the truck. With nowhere to escape, Bishop shot Pangle, according to Gibson.
Even then, Pangle refused to get out of his truck, and Deputy Ben Dyer pulled him out, Gibson said. But as he was struggling with Pangle, Dyer cut his arm on broken glass. He was treated at Hamilton Medical Center, Gibson said.