Two Delaware Officers Injured by Fleeing Man's Car

Dover Police said two officers were injured when they were dragged across a parking lot by a fleeing man's car.

It happened about 2:15 a.m. Thursday at the Hamlet Shopping Center. Patrolmen Anthony D'Errico and Willie Johnson saw a man reclining in the driver's seat of a car and knocked on the window.

Authorities said the man began moving in the car and the officers opened a door the remove him from the vehicle.

Police said the man put the car in reverse and drove across the parking lot, dragging the officers, before driving off.

Other officers chased after and arrested the driver. Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Brewer of Dover was charged with vehicular assault, DUI and numerous other offenses.

D'Errico and Johnson were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.