A man was indicted on a felony charge this week after Killeen police said that one of their own was struck by a truck that had veered onto a sidewalk.

On Wednesday, a Bell County grand jury indicted Christopher Michael Pearson on a charge of collision involving injury, which is a violation under the Texas Transportation Code that is punishable by one year in the county jail and up to five years in prison.

Pearson, 33, was booked into the Bell County Jail on July 9, and was being held on Thursday with a bond of $200,000, listed.

The alleged incident occurred on March 1. Two KPD officers “were standing on the sidewalk on Condor Street...when a black small-frame pickup truck made a wide left turn, striking (one officer and) causing him to roll up onto the hood and to be thrown approximatel

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