The four Charlotte police officers injured in the shooting are now home and recovering – The Virginian-Pilot

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who were hospitalized after sustaining injuries in last week’s fatal shooting in east Charlotte are now home and recovering, CMPD said Tuesday .

CMPD officers Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio, Jack Blowers and Justin Campbell suffered injuries after responding to a home on Galway Drive where four police officers were fatally shot while attempting to arrest Terry Clark Hughes Jr., who was later fatally shot became police.

Three of the injured CMPD officers suffered gunshot wounds and one had a broken foot, police said.

Statesville Police Cpl. Casey Hoover was released last Thursday after being shot and injured in the shooting, the department said on social media.

Four officers from a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force were killed trying to carry out the crime, and the injured CMPD officers were all responding to the shooting, police said.

Private funerals are planned for Alden Elliott and Sam Poloche, two slain North Carolina Department of Adult Correction officers.

Both funerals will not be open to the general public, but Elliott’s family invited the public to line up along U.S. 70 in Catawba County to pay tribute.

The four officers killed in North Carolina were tough but kind and loved their jobs, friends say

Last week, a funeral for CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. “Tommy” Weeks Jr. was held Monday.

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