CARTER COUNTY MAN HUNTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE REGION AFTER STRIKING GRAYSON POLICE OFFICER WITH HIS CAR AND FLEEING FROM SCENE
SUSPECT, WHO IS A FELON AND HAS EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SHOT AT BY SECOND OFFICER DURING SAME TRAFFIC STOP SCENE
JUNE 11, 20224 – written by WADE QUEEN
JUST HIS TWO MOST RECENT ARREST PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER WAYNE CARPENTER, 34, OF OLIVE HILL, KENTUCKY; WHO IS CONVICTED FELON, IS NOW WANTED FOR THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICER, AFTER VIOLENT INCIDENT DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IN GRAYSON KY., DURING EARLY MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 10.
A Carter County, Kentucky man is wanted in connection with an officer-involved shooting that happened after an officer was hit by a car that happened during a traffic stop early Monday morning, according to the Grayson Police Department.
Grayson Police Chief Tony Cantrell says officers were attempting to pull over Christopher Wayne Carpenter, 34, of Olive Hill, KY., in the 200 block of South Carol Malone Boulevard around 4:30 A.M. on Monday morning, June 10, when the incident happened.
During the traffic stop, Christopher Carpenter is accused of intentionally hitting an officer with his vehicle. A second officer on the scene then fired several rounds into the vehicle before Christopher Carpenter took off.
Grayson P.D. Chief Cantrell said that the officer who was hit by the car was taken to the Kings Daughter Medical Center hospital in Ashland, KY. for treatment of his injuries and he was subsequently since been released.
Law enforcement agencies around the region are searching for Christopher Carpenter, who is believed to be armed and dangerous.
Christopher Wayne Carpenter is a convicted felon, with a very long criminal record going back to March 2009, with at least twenty-eight (28) arrests, with at least fifty-four (54) felonies, misdemeanor, and motor traffic violations in Kentucky; with multiple resisting arrest, nearly a dozen failure to appears, double digit counts of thefts, and first degree assault; with the majority of these committed in Carter County, but also in Rowan County, Lewis County, Greenup County, Fulton County, Hart County, and Pike County; as well as serving sentenced time in state prison
Christopher Wayne Carpenter is now currently charged with:
- Attempted Murder of a Police Officer,
- First Degree Fleeing or Evading Police in a Motor Vehicle,
- First-Degree Wanton Endangerment of a Police Officer, and
- Resisting Arrest.
If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Christopher Carpenter, you are asked to please call the Grayson Police Department at 606-474-6222, or you can call your local 911 .
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UPDATE:SUSPECT IN VEHICLE ASSAULT OF POLICE OFFICER SURRENDERS
A Carter County man wanted after intentionally hitting a police officer with his vehicle following a traffic stop turned himself in early Tuesday morning.
According to the Grayson Police Chief Tony Cantrell, Christopher Wayne Carpenter self-surrendered at the Carter County Detention Center just before 3:00 A.M., Tuesday morning, June 11.
