CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Authorities say a North Charleston police officer was saved by his bulletproof vest during a shooting. 

NCPD officials say Officer Wayne Pavlischek, whose vest stopped a bullet, was transported to the hospital following the Monday evening incident. He has since been released. 

According to authorities, the shooter was shot by officers and is at the hospital.

He has not been identified. 

According to NCPD officials, the incident started when officers received a call at 4:33 p.m. from a concerned citizen in reference to a speeding white vehicle trying to run over a pedestrian in the roadway on Waltham Road in Northwoods Estates. 

"All of a sudden around 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., I heard a guy flying down the road in a white SUV," said Alesia Wright."He flew down the road. About three or four minutes later he flew back the other way."

Police say when officers arrived at the scene, they secured a perimeter around a home on Waltham Road attempting to contact the suspect whose vehicle was parked in the backyard.