PHOENIX (KPHO) - Two Phoenix police officers and a carjacking suspect were wounded in a shootout at 61st and Virginia Avenues this morning.
One officer reportedly suffered a wound to an arm, the other a superficial wound to the head in the shooting after a carjacking went bad around 10:05 a.m., according to the Phoenix Police Department. No wounds were described for the suspect, who was in custody.
There was no word on the condition of either officer or the suspect.
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PHOENIX - Two Phoenix police officers have been shot in a confrontation with a suspect who also was wounded.
It all started when the officers tried stopping a man on a bike at a park near 61st Avenue and Virginia.
Police say the man took off, rode to a stranger's driveway, then pulled out a gun and fired at the officers.
The man then went into the unlocked house and demanded keys from the 63-year-old homeowner.
"Some guy entered the house and was shooting that's all I know and I just dropped the phone and came running," says Monica Heiselman, homeowner's daughter.
When the suspect exited the home, officers and the suspect exchanged gunfire.
Phoenix fire Capt. Troy Caskey says the two officers were taken to local hospitals around 10:30 a.m. Thursday with non-life-threatening injuries.
He says one officer was grazed by a bullet in the head, while the other was shot in the arm.
The suspect involved in the shooting, a man in his mid-30s, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening wounds from being shot several times by police.
"The thing that people need to understand is that that graze wound was literally inches from being a fatal gunshot, so they literally were in the jaws of death in this encounter," says Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
