{"id":375660,"date":"2025-12-29T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375660\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:58:14","slug":"police-apprehend-suspect-after-officer-shot-at-hixson-circle-k-leading-to-highway-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375660\/","title":{"rendered":"Police apprehend suspect after officer shot at Hixson Circle K; leading to highway chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo by WTVC\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53d2d51d-fd49-44fd-af92-93958d4360c2-4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A suspect is in custody after allegedly shooting a police officer and stealing his patrol car at a Circle K off of Highway 153 in Hixson late Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was responding to a shots fired call at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled the scene in the stolen police car, leading authorities to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit ended on East Valley Road off of Highway 111 in Sequatchie County where the suspect drove off the road before being apprehended.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo by WTVC\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/db9625aa-b0b4-4d9b-92ad-7fc0ab48943e-6.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Both the wounded officer and suspect were taken to Erlanger Hospital in downtown Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of the officer and what led to the initial shots fired call are currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The TBI is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to the agency and the Chattanooga Police Department for more details.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Depend on us to keep you updated as we learn more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect is in custody after allegedly shooting a police officer and stealing his patrol car at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-375660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}