BY RON GALLAGHER
RALEIGH --- One police
officer's gun went off and another officer was wounded in the leg early
Thursday as Raleigh police answered a call about a man who had been waving a
handgun at an apartment complex in North Raleigh.
Officer K.J. Barefoot, 31, was
taken to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh for treatment of the leg wound and later
released.
Police arrested Joshua Daniel
Timberlake, 28, on a domestic-abuse charge related to the incident. The
department is still investigating how Barefoot was shot when police arrived at
Timberlake's home in the Meridian at Wakefield apartment complex early Thursday
morning.
During the incident, Sgt. J.D.
Malzahn's service sidearm fired, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said. Police had
not determined whether that was the only shot and whether it was Malzahn's
round that struck Barefoot, he said. No one else has been charged in the
shooting.
Malzahn has worked for the
department since November 2009 and Barefoot joined in June 2012.
