A 19-year-old man is accused of attempted murder in a shooting that hit an occupied Metropolitan Police Department vehicle Friday night in east Las Vegas.

Jaime Bustillos Jr. was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on nine counts, including attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon and gun-related charges.

The shooting, which missed the officer driving the Metro vehicle, occurred about 6 p.m. in the 6400 block of East Stewart Avenue, west of North Hollywood Boulevard, police said.

In the hour prior to the shooting, the officer was participating in an operation trying to track down a person wanted in a “felony evade” case, police said.

Police said the wanted person was believed to be in a white Volkswagen sedan, which the officer was surveilling.

The officer then saw a man

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