MILWAUKEE, WI (WHBL) – A Milwaukee police officer is recovering after a shootout just off I-94 that left him wounded. It happened Thursday evening shortly before 6:30.
The officer was responding to a report of someone slumped over in a car. When the officer arrived, police say that person pulled a gun and ran. That’s when the officer and the person exchanged gunfire. They were both wounded.
Police say the suspect then stole the officer’s car and sped away, but crashed a few blocks later.
Both the officer and the suspect are in the hospital with non-life threatening wounds.
The officer is the third officer shot in Milwaukee in just three weeks.
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