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Sep 26, 2007 9:14 am US/Eastern

Benefield Arrested For Driving Erratically

He Was Shot In November 2006 Along With Sean Bell

NEW YORK (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: Trent Benefield made a statement after his release from the hospital in December 2006. (File)
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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: A photo of Sean Bell with his fiancee Nicole Paultre and one of his children is displayed at a memorial dedicated to the shooting victim on Nob. 28, 2006, in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Sean Bell was killed and two friends wounded when New York City po
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One of the men who survived the police shooting in Queens that killed Sean Bell on his wedding day is under arrest.

Police say they pulled over Trent Benefield for driving erratically on 147th Street in South Jamaica Tuesday night. He's charged with assaulting his girlfriend, who was in the car with him at the time of his arrest.

Benefield is also facing charges of harassment, disorderly conduct and driving without a license. Benefield will be arraigned later in the day Wednesday.

Bell, 23, was gunned down on Nov. 25, 2006, just hours before his wedding, as he left his bachelor party. The officers were conducting an undercover operation into alleged prostitution at the Kalua Cabaret in Queens, where the party was held.

According to police union officials and defense lawyers, the undercover officers believed Bell and his friends were going to get a gun. The officers started shooting after a car lurched forward, bumped Isnora and slammed into an unmarked police minivan, authorities said.

Bell's friends, Benefield and Joseph Guzman, survived serious wounds, and have since claimed the officers fired without warning.