WISE COUNTY, Texas — Authorities are looking for the motorcyclist who shot an officer in the leg Sunday night in Wise County, prompting the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue a Blue Alert Tuesday night.

Officials say the suspect is 43-year-old Royce Edward Wood. He was wanted in connection to a home invasion incident that happened on Saturday. On Sunday night, Rhome officers saw Wood on a motorcycle and initiated a traffic stop.

Wood got off the motorcycle, fired at officers, then took off. One of the bullets hit an officer in the lower leg. The officer was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and is expected to be OK.

There was a female passenger on the motorcycle; she was taken into custody.

Wood is described as 6’2”, 200 pounds, with a beard and a bald head. He was last seen wearing a baseball cap, camo bandana, green shirt, vest, shorts and black sunglasses.

DPS officials say Wood is considered dangerous. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call police.