This doesn’t look like it will end well.
The charges don’t seem to fit exactly what happened and something about the entire situation seems a bit suspect. Here are the details, so you can judge for yourself.
The Huntington Police Department says in a news release that 39-year-old Kenneth Maurice Ziegler of Huntington was arrested Thursday morning. He’s charged with attempted murder, two drug counts, obstructing and two fleeing counts.
Police say officers were searching for someone else at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday when they saw a person inside a vehicle trying to hide. When they confronted the man, he drove the vehicle into one officer and dragged him for several feet.
This isn’t your classic case of attempted murder—it just sounds like someone who was spooked by the police, tried to get away and accidentally hit a cop.
Unless you are a cold blooded killer, no one intentionally runs over the police.
OJ Mayo is 23 and his dad is 39, meaning he was around 15 or so when he helped conceived Mayo which unfortunately isn’t that uncommon these days.
The question is what did Mr. Ziegler have to hide at 3:3oam? From the police report, it sounds like drugs, but that is a lot better than attempted murder.
As the story develops, we will provide more details.