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COLUMBUS (AP) — The Franklin County Sheriff’s office says a deputy who tried to make a traffic stop was shot in the lower abdomen by a driver who was then killed amid gunfire from other officers responding to the scene.
The wounded deputy, Jacob Heaberlin, a 2006 graduate of Riverside High School, underwent surgery after the Saturday evening shooting and was recovering Monday at a hospital.
Authorities say Heaberlin tried to stop an erratic driver in a pickup truck, and when the truck crashed near a gas station, the driver fired a handgun at the approaching deputy.
Investigators identified the slain driver as 55-year-old Darrell Bruffy, of Orient, who was also wanted for violating a protection order.
No one else was hurt. The shooting remains under investigation.