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TAMPA - Brandon McElderry, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper shot Wednesday morning during a traffic stop, went home Friday after two days at Tampa General Hospital.
Darian Maurice Wright, 28, who was already jailed on multiple felony charges stemming from Wednesday's confrontation, had a charge of attempted murder added Friday. He was being held without bail.
Wright shot McElderry in the right thigh with the trooper's gun after a struggle, the FHP said. McElderry, 30, had seen Wright driving with an expired tag and pulled him over in Southeast Seminole Heights, said Trooper Larry Coggins, an FHP spokesman.
Wright fled, and when McElderry caught him the two struggled, Coggins said. Wright took the trooper's .40-caliber Beretta and shot him, officials say. Tampa police officers arrested Wright a few blocks away.