Esteban Parra

The News Journal

Injured trooper is 25 years old, been on force for 1.5 years, and assigned to Troop 3 Dover-Camden

Police say Glenn A. Sego Jr. attacked trooper with a cane and her stun gun before being shot

Trooper was treated and released on Wednesday.

Sego, still hospitalized, was involved in a standoff with police in 2008

A 47-year-old man attacked a state trooper with a cane and her stun gun before being shot by the officer Wednesday afternoon, Delaware State Police alleged Thursday.

Glenn A. Sego Jr. faces a charge of second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, state police Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said Thursday.

"The trooper was not shot, was not injured by any gunshot or anything of that nature," he said.

The confrontation began shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday outside a mobile home in the 3400 block of Judith Road near Hartly. She was sent to the scene after a family member called 911 to report a suicidal man at the home, Fournier said.

As the 25-year-old trooper approached the home, Sego came out and began walking to the rear of the property, which is overgrown with tall weeds, Fournier said.

"The trooper followed Sego and began issuing commands for him to stop as she wanted to speak to him. He did not comply and she followed him behind an abandoned trailer and into the weeds," Fournier said.

"Sego began using a metal walking cane to strike the trooper several times in the upper torso," he said.

She then removed her police-issued Taser, Fournier said, "but he was able to take it from her possession and utilize it on her."

The trooper fired a single shot from her department-issued handgun, striking Sego in a lower extremity, Fournier said.

The trooper's name has not been released, but she's been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which is department policy.

Sego was taken by state police helicopter to Christiana Hospital. Other charges he faces after his hospital release include possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. and resisting arrest with force, Fournier said.

The trooper was treated and released Wednesday at Bayhealth/Kent General Hospital in Dover.

Fournier said she has been with state police for a year and a half and is assigned to Troop 3 patrol in the Dover-Camden area.

Neighbors told The News Journal that police were called frequently to the residence near Hartly.

Sego held police at bay six years ago at his Hartly-area residence, according to Superior Court records. He was apprehended without incident after members of the State Police Special Operations Response Team entered the home in the 3400 block of Judith Road and found Sego unresponsive on a bedroom floor on July 2008, according to News Journal archives.

Sego pleaded guilty to offensive touching later that month and was sentenced to a year of probation, court records said.

At least two other state troopers have been injured in incidents this year.

A trooper was wounded during the raid of a Bear home on Aug. 11. Master Cpl. Thad Boyce sustained abrasions in the right rear shoulder and right lower neck after a bullet hit his protective vest.

Cpl. Lloyd M. McCann was wounded June 25 and fatally shot Dennis Hicks following a chase that ended near Magnolia.

Contact Esteban Parra at (302) 324-2299, eparra@delawareonline.com or Twitter @eparra3.