Deputy dies after four shot in ambush

YORK, S.C. — Michael “Mike” Doty, the York County, S.C., deputy who was one of four law enforcement officers shot in a Tuesday incident involving a domestic violence suspect, has died.

York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson confirmed Doty’s death at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte Wednesday around 7 p.m.

Officers Randy Clinton and Buddy Brown of the sheriff ’s office and Kyle Cummings of the York Police Department also were shot in the attack and are recovering at CMC after surgeries.

Doty’s twin brother, Chris, also is a sheriff’s office deputy.

Mike Doty was 37 years old, said Trent Faris, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.

York Police Chief Andy Robinson, whose department had one officer wounded, said Mike Doty’s death “hurts us all in the law enforcement brotherhood.”

Yet Robinson said police officers will not be deterred from protecting the public and their resolve.

“Every one of my officers, and every officer from other departments I have talked to since this happened, remains committed to helping protect people and serving people,” Robinson said. “The best way we can honor Mike Doty is to do what we as police do –serve everyone else.”

Police and prosecutors say Doty was shot by Christian Thomas McCall Tuesday after McCall ambushed Doty and the other officers.

McCall now could face murder charges in Mike Doty’s death, and possibly the death penalty.

While not commenting on the evidence in the case, 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett said late Wednesday after confirming Doty’s death that the same evidence in the case where he has advised police to seek attempted murder warrants against McCall for shooting the other three officers would support seeking murder charges against McCall.