RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Raleigh police officer was taken to the hospital Thursday after they were hit by a driver in a parking lot.
According to the Raleigh Police Department, the incident happened in the 1100 block of Raleigh Boulevard in the parking lot of Food Lion.
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Witnesses told ABC11 when officers tried to arrest a person who was sitting in a car, that person took off driving and hit one of the officers and multiple vehicles in the parking lot.
Raleigh officers were able to stop the driver, 18-year-old Mazaye Anthony James, and arrest him.
James faces several charges including felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, felony assault with a deadly weapon upon a government employee, felony speeding to elude arrest with a motor vehicle, and felony resist delay or obstruct a public officer causing serious injury.
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The officer was taken to the hospital with what police described as non-life-threatening injuries.