An Indiana State Police trooper was shot and wounded during a traffic stop Tuesday night.
Trooper Morgenn Evans pulled over a gray 1999 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck for a traffic infraction near the intersection of Park and Jefferson Streets in Jeffersonville around 7:05 p.m. when the incident occurred, according to a news release.
Officials said that 79-year-old Oscar Kays became combative and pulled out a handgun and shot Evans in the head. The trooper was able to return fire at Kays as he fled the scene.
Evans got back to his police car and gave chase a short distance but Kays was able to escape and returned to his home on Huston Drive. Soon after he taken into custody by the Jeffersonville City police officers and Clark County Sheriff's deputies.
Evans, who joined the force in October 2016, was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Kays was transported to the hospital with unknown injuries. Following his release from the hospital, he was charged with Attempted Murder of a Police Officer and taken to the Clark County Jail.
