Deputy Scott Stone was released from UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central Wednesday, more than a week after he was wounded in a gunbattle during an attempted arrest of an auto-theft suspect, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Deputy Micah Flick was slain in the Feb. 5 shooting in the parking lot of an apartment complex near North Murray Boulevard and Galley Road.
Stone, sheriff’s Sgt. Jacob Abendschan, Colorado Springs police Detective Marcus Yanez and Thomas Villanueva, a resident, were injured.
The shooter – Manuel Zetina, 19, of Colorado Springs – also was killed.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office announced on social media that Stone was being released, including a message from the wounded deputy.
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