An Evansville officer was injured during a hit and run on Monday.
Officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of Lodge Avenue in Evansville in reference to a family dispute on Monday, according to a news release from the Evansville Police Department.
While on scene, a vehicle stopped behind a marked police vehicle parked on the street. Both the officer’s vehicle and the one stopped were facing south.
As the officer was instructing the driver to go around the parked vehicle, he was struck by a separate vehicle traveling northbound on Lodge Avenue. The officer immediately alerted responding officers that he had been struck by a vehicle that fled the scene, according to police.
Officers responding to the area located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop in the 2300 block of Lodge Avenue. During the car stop the driver attempted to drive around the officers.
When the vehicle was successfully stopped, officers attempted to remove the driver, 21-year-old David E. Ventura.
Ventura physically resisted being removed from the vehicle, according to police. He was removed from the vehicle and detained.
Officers then observed multiple beer cans inside the vehicle.
While officers were attempting to gain control of Ventura, the front seat passenger, Saulo P. Ventura, 22, fled the vehicle on foot. Saulo was located and taken into custody.
Saulo was charged with resisting law enforcement.
Ventura showed signs of impairment and submitted to sobriety testing. He was charged with multiple counts of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an injury crash, operating without ever receiving a license, resisting law enforcement, battery on a public safety official and operating with an open container.
The officer involved was treated for non-life threatening and released at a local hospital.
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