The Dallas Morning News
FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth officer critically injured in a shootout last week has suffered a setback in his recovery, his wife said Tuesday.
Matt Pearce, who was shot multiple times chasing a wanted fugitive March 15, had an abdominal incision tear open during a coughing fit, his wife said in statement released through the Fort Worth Police Department.
Pearce underwent surgery and has been in critical conditional since he was shot seven times — once in the cheek, twice in the arm, twice in the chest and twice in the leg.
The officer had shown signs of improvement earlier in the week, according to an update his wife posted on a GoFundMe page set up for Pearce and his family.
Pearce, who has two young children, was wounded in a gunfight that followed a chase in West Fort Worth in which officers had tried to arrest Ed Russell McIver Sr., 43, on charges of assault and jumping bail.
Police shot and killed the elder McIver, but his son Ed Russell McIver Jr., 20, ran away. He was captured several hours later.
The younger McIver has been charged with attempted capital murder, evading arrest, unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. He is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.
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