An Amherst County Sheriff's deputy was honored Tuesday for her actions during a September 2017 traffic stop that resulted in her shooting a Monroe man in a scuffle where another officer was shot and injured. Investigator Erin Napier, the officer honored with the Medal of Valor, said she was surprised and honored to receive the medal. During a late-night stop at the Monroe Post Office on Sept. 22, 2017, she shot Trevor Dawson Ewers in the shoulder when Ewers quickly pulled out a gun while being removed from the vehicle by former Sheriff's Lt. Jason Meador. Ewers Ewers, who was intoxicated, stepped out of the vehicle and retrieved a handgun from his pocket, immediately causing a struggle with Meador, and the officer was shot. Meador recovered from the shot and his since left the department. Napier â whose surname at the time of the shooting was Karajankovich â and Meador both testified at Ewers' 2019 trial in Amherst Circuit Court about the negative physical and mental effects they suffered in the incident.Â