WALTON, KY (WXIX) - Two deputies were shot while serving an arrest warrant at a Northern Kentucky apartment complex before the suspect turned the gun on himself, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.

The deputies were serving a felony warrant for overdue child support to a man at an apartment off Towne Creek Drive when they were met with “heavy gunfire” just after 10 p.m. Thursday, said Major Phillip Ridgell.

“This is a worst nightmare type of situation,” he said.

They began to run as seven shots were fired from inside the building, according to video shared with FOX19 NOW.

Both deputies, who were wearing bulletproof vests, were shot multiple times.

One deputy was shot in the chest and airlifted to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, according to Major Ridgell.

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