A North Carolina detention officer was fatally shot during a "scuffle" at a medical facility after a federal inmate who had been taken to the facility for treatment managed to seize his weapon, authorities said.

LAMAR, S.C. (AP) — A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while a second officer was hurt, authorities said. The suspect in the shooting was also killed, the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office said.