Police officers in the small town of Batesburg-Leesville will be pulling extra shifts to cover for an officer shortage during a state investigation into how an officer’s gun went off during an altercation with a suspect.
Batesburg-Leesville Town Manager Jay Hendrix said services from the town police department would not be disrupted by the incident on Tuesday, in which a town police officer scuffled with a suspect at a gas station who attempted to take the officer’s gun.
The gun fired without injuring anyone, the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division said in a statement. But the same officer was also tased with his own taser during the altercation, the agency said. The suspect was subdued when a second officer arrived on the scene…