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Deputy Returns To Work After Months Of Recovery From Shooting

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - An El Paso County Sheriff's deputy returned to work nine months after he was seriously wounded in a shooting. That shooting killed a fellow deputy.

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Deputy Scott Stone (credit: El Paso County Sheriff's Office)

Scott Stone is on light desk duty as of Nov. 8, according to the Gazette.

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Deputy Scott Stone as he's released from the hospital. (credit: El Paso County Sheriff's Office)

Stone was shot in the stomach on Feb. 5 when he and other officers tried to arrest a suspected car thief in Colorado Springs. Deputy Micah Flick was shot and killed. The suspect also died.

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