NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Clarksville man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for hitting a police officer with his car and then firing shots at police while he fled.

Elique Camacho, 23, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee in a news release.

On June 24, 2018, Clarksville Police were called to the scene of a domestic assault. When they arrived, Camacho tried to leave the scene. As officers approached his vehicle, Camacho drove toward them, struck one of the officers with his vehicle and fled, the release said.

As officers pursued Camacho, he fired several rounds at them from his vehicle. One of the officers rammed and disabled Camacho’s vehicle. Camacho ran from them and hid in a wooded area overnight before being arrested the following day at a friend’s house. At the time of his arrest, Camacho was in possession of a 9 mm handgun.

Camacho pleaded guilty in January. He had been convicted of domestic assault in January 2017 and was prohibited from possessing a firearm, the release said.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives and the Clarksville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brooke Schiferle prosecuted the case.