** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) ** A traffic stop in South Florida turned dangerous early Sunday morning when the driver opened fire on the officer who stopped him. The shooting was caught on a Miami Gardens police officer's dash cam. After pulling the driver over for driving with his headlights off, the officer noticed he was wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest. Police said the officer asked the driver if he had any weapons in the car and asked the driver to get out of the car. The officer and the driver, 37-year-old Gary Sprauve, exchanged gunfire, and Sprauve was shot. The officer’s vehicle was also shot on the passenger’s side during the gunfire. Sprauve, now wounded, drove away from the scene. The officer sped after him, and the chase ended at 191st Street and North Miami Avenue near the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On the way, police said Sprauve hit a civilian car. The man was taken to a Aventura Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police recovered the man’s gun from the scene of the traffic stop, plus an additional gun and a bulletproof vest from Sprauve’s car. The officer, who has been with the department nearly four years, was not injured. Sprauve, who was convicted of burglary in 2007, was charged with first-degree attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, two counts of owning a gun during a felony, two counts of owning a gun as a convicted felon and wearing a bulletproof vest while trying to kill a police officer.

** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) ** Erica Barreiro-Rapp is a name well-known to Monroe police, but even officers who have dealt with her in the past say they are a little surprised about what she’s accused of doing. “She’s very desperate to stay out of jail. If she is doing what she did, with her own child in the car, she’s very desperate,” Monroe police Sgt. Tom Cobaugh said. Police said Barreiro-Rapp was the driver seen trying to elude police on cruiser cam video. They said she led them on a chase with her 3-year-old child in the vehicle. Barreiro-Rapp was in court on Wednesday, but when she found out she had felony warrants out of Kentucky, she made an excuse to leave court and then got into her van and took off. An officer had followed her to the van but she took off before he could stop her. Barreiro-Rapp is accused of driving through yards, crossing the center line and nearly hitting a police cruiser, running over a concrete barrier and driving through a red light at a busy intersection. Police had to call off the chase because it got too dangerous. Barreiro-Rapp was later spotted at a hotel where, authorities said, she went into a random room and as she saw police coming, she jumped out of a first-floor window with her child and escaped. Cobaugh said he’s seen this kind of spiral before. “They start out with minor problems and it escalates into theft problems, drug charges, more thefts. It just keeps going until situations like these come up,” he said. Barreiro-Rapp has a lengthy criminal history including heroin charges, domestic issues, theft and weapons charges. It’s the same place where officers were called to make a welfare check on her five children on the day of the chase. “If she’s that desperate to get away, she’s liable to do anything and it makes it that much more dangerous for the child involved,” said Cobaugh, “and the innocent people out there on the street as well.” In addition to the charges she was already facing, Barreiro-Rapp is also facing charges of eluding police and child endangering.