ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — Authorities have arrested a man who they say pulled a gun on a Rowan County sheriff’s deputy, then head-butted her before running off from a fast-food restaurant and prompting a search.
A Rowan County sheriff’s deputy was going to the Cookout drive-thru line on East Innes Street early on Wednesday to get a drink when workers asked her to check on two men who appeared to be passed out in a car in the line, according to a news release.
Deputy A.D. Weaver could not wake up the two men and called in for Salisbury police to go to the scene.
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EMS and the Salisbury Fire Department were dispatched as well.
Weaver and a Salisbury police officer spoke to the passenger, Dayshun Lamont Davis, 18, who kept putting his left hand under his leg despite commands to keep his hands where they could be seen, authorities said.
Davis jumped out of the car, shoved the gun into the deputy’s vest and hit her chin with his head before running off, the news release said. Aided by a N.C. State Highway Patrol helicopter, deputies and police located Davis at a home at about 1 p.m. Thursday at a home at 417 Miller Ave. and arrested him without incident.
Davis is being held on a $500,000 bond on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon on a government official. It’s not known if he has an attorney.
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