Coventry Man Sentenced For Shooting At Attleboro Police Officers

COVENTRY, RI — A Coventry man was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison after he shot at two police officers in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 2018.

Eric Lindsey, 45, pleaded guilty Monday to intent to murder, breaking and enters and several gun charges, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said.

The shooting happened on Aug. 27, 2018, on Newport Avenue. Police were called to the area for a report of a gun-wielding man at an Assembly of God Church.

When a police cruiser arrived, Lindsey started shooting at the officers, authorities said. One officer was already out of the cruiser when Lindsey started shooting, and the other dove out during the gunfire, police said.

Lindsey was shot by police and suffered serious injuries, but police administered first aid to save the man's life and got him to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

"They basically wounded him to the point where if they had not administered first aid with a tourniquet, it would have been critical," Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux told Patch, following the shooting.

The two officers involved avoided injury when Lindsey fired into their police cruiser, despite bullets flying through the windshield, police said. One bullet hole was found in a headrest.