CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Police arrested 33-year-old Dominique Vaughan Friday for the shooting of a police car in November, and new courts documents show how they connected him to the incident that almost cost an officer their life.

On Nov. 24, an officer was responding to a shots fired call in the Holly Point neighborhood when three shots rang out from a passing Dodge Charger.

“One bullet hit the front hood of the vehicle and ricocheted into the windshield, and another bullet hit the passenger door, entering the side pillar between the front door and rear door,” the criminal complaint in the case reads.

The officer was able to get a description of the car before losing track of it on the interstate.

“The vehicle was equipped with fake N.C. temporary tags,” according to the complaint. “The back of the vehicle had a custom red paint job that looked like blood coming down the back of the trunk.”

Later that evening, officers in Norfolk pulled over a car matching the description and found two men, one of whom was suffering from a gunshot wound and had a gun in his possession. The document does not reveal their identities.

Police came across surveillance video showing a man entering and then leaving a home on the 4300 block of Cutter Ct. around the time of the shooting.

In an attempt to find the owner of the car, detectives on the case looked back to previous calls to service at that address. In June 2023, they found that Vaughan had been arrested there on federal mail theft charges.

In October, they also uncovered information that Vaughan had an interaction with an officer outside of his mother’s home less than a quarter-mile away.

“During this encounter, Dominque Vaughan admits to [the officer] he is the owner of this black 2021 Dodge Charger,” the complaint read.

They searched the different, fake temporary plates the vehicle had at that time in the Flock system and found hundreds of hits, including a Nov. 1 photo of the car with the custom paint job.

And then, there was perhaps the biggest break of all:

“Through this investigation, the detective learned that the Chesapeake Police has a camera … that overlooks Dominique Vaughan’s mother’s house,” according to the document.

That camera captured video of Vaughan leaving the home the day before the shooting.

“This video and the video from Cutter Court appear to have the same subject, based on mannerisms and physical characteristics, which this detective believes is Dominique Vaughan,” the document reads.

Investigators also uncovered a video on Vaughan’s TikTok account of him in a Dodge Charger.

“This video clearly shows a red and black steering wheel cover, which appears to be the same as the one this detective saw in the vehicle after it was towed,” the complaint stated.

Three days before his arrest, police linked a fingerprint taken from the car to Vaughan.

Vaughan is scheduled for a hearing in Chesapeake General District Court at 10 a.m. Feb. 12.