FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy was taken to a hospital Wednesday after a deputy-involved shooting.
BSO spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said the suspect, identified by sources as Michael Mainolfi, 51, was taken into custody in the 1900 block of East Commercial Boulevard.
Coleman-Wright said the suspect was taken to Broward Health Medical Center.
The deputy was also taken Broward Health Imperial Point. Both were expected to survive.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the suspect initially led deputies on a chase just before 2 p.m. that started at the Dolphin Harbor Inn parking lot, 4245 N. Ocean Drive, in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
The sheriff said deputies watched the suspect inside his vehicle outside the motel and identified him as someone who was wanted in connection with a separate incident.
Israel said deputies ordered the suspect out of his vehicle, but he backed up, striking the deputy's vehicle and the deputy.
The deputy fired at the suspect, striking him in the upper arm, Israel said.
Israel said the chase ended at a medical building near Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale after the suspect lost control of his vehicle and crashed into two parked cars.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was notified about the shooting.
Mainolfi faces several charges, including aggravated fleeing and eluding, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting a law enforcement officer with violence.