UPDATE: Philadelphia police officer released from hospital after being shot in hand
A Philadelphia police officer was shot in the hand during a struggle with a man inside a residence in the city's Kensington neighborhood.Officials say officers responded to the area for reports of shots being fired. At the scene, the officers saw spent shell casings leading to a house in the area.Officials say they found a man hiding in a crawl space in the basement when officers entered the home, and police were trying to coax him out.
"The officers gave several orders for that male to leave from the crawl space and that person continued to refuse the officers' orders. The officers then struggled with the male in an attempt to get him to leave the crawl space," said Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.According to Outlaw, the man then tried to grab the Taser and that's when a shot was fired.
One of the officers suffered a gunshot wound to the hand, but it's still unclear who shot the officer or if the man was armed with a gun.Further details on the shooting are still under investigation. "At this point, I know that there was a struggle, and we know that there were shots fired. Timeline, all of that, will come into fruition as we get the opportunity to not only interview witnesses that were there on the scene but to get statements from all the officers involved," said Outlaw.Police say he's 27 years old, married, and assigned to the 24th District.Copyright © 2023 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.
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