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Arrest Made after Alabama Medical Helicopter Shooting
FBI and FAA now leading federal investigation
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Authorities in Autauga County, Alabama, arrested a man on Wednesday after gunfire struck a Haynes LifeFlight helicopter as it approached a landing zone to assist in a medical call, according to the Autauga County sheriff’s office.

Ambulance services provider Haynes LifeFlight dispatched the aircraft around 4:20 a.m. to a landing zone prepared by volunteer firefighters to pick up a patient. “Upon Haynes LifeFlight arriving, several shots were fired at the medical helicopter, striking the right side window as it approached the landing zone,” the sheriff’s office said. “A flight nurse within the medical helicopter was struck by the ricochet of the bullet.”