Authorities have charged a man in the fatal shooting a South Carolina police officer during a traffic stop over the weekend.
5 min readA 26-year-old police officer was gunned down on Sunday, marking the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty in the United States in 2020, authorities said.James Edward Bell, 37, was charged with murder, discharging of a firearm into a vehicle and possession of a weapon during a violent crime on Monday, one day after he allegedly shot and killed an airport police officer.
Winkeler was found dead on the ground outside of his police vehicle. His weapon was missing, but police found an empty 9 mm handgun and more than 30 shell casings nearby, according to an arrest affidavit.
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