Updated 3 p.m.
Joshua Sumter broke into his mother’s house in Stafford County at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to investigators.
The 18-year-old did not have permission to be at the home, and the victim called 911, according to Stafford County Sheriff’s spokeswoman M.C. Moncure.
Deputies arrived and entered the home and found Sumter lying on a floor. The deputies told the suspect to show is hands, and then he pulled out a handgun and started shooting, according to Moncure.
A deputy returned fire. One of the deputies was struck four times — in the chest, arm, hip, and thigh. The law enforcement officer was saved from a potentially life-ending round, said Moncure.
The unidentified deputy was taken to a local hospital for treatment in serious but stable condition. The officer was expected to undergo surgery this afternoon.
Sumter fled the scene after the shooting and was arrested early this morning. While being escorted from the sheriff’s office to the Rappahannock Regional Jail, Sumter assaulted a deputy and tried to escape, said Moncure.
The suspect was taken back into custody. He is charged with four counts of attempted capital murder, aggravated malicious wounding, four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and with assault on a law enforcement officer, according to Moncure.
Sumter is being held without bond.
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Joshua Anthony Sumter, 18, is charged with shooting a Stafford County Sheriff’s deputy.
Sumter was arrested at 5:45 a.m. in southern Stafford County and is charged with attempted capital murder, according to a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
The identify or the condition of the deputy has not been released. The law enforcement officer was injured “extensively,” according to a department spokeswoman.
Deputies were called Tuesday night to a breaking and entering at a home in Windsor Ridge Court, near Route 1. It was there the deputy was shot multiple times.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is expected to release more info about the deputy later today.
