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PHOENIX (NewsNation) — Two constabulary officers successful Phoenix were changeable and wounded aft approaching a antheral suspected of breaking into a car Tuesday night.
One of the officers is successful unchangeable condition, apt saved by his ballistic vest, portion the different is warring for his life, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
“This is simply a unspeakable nighttime for the Phoenix Police Department and for those who emotion and attraction for officers and for members of our community,” interim Police Chief Michael Sullivan said astatine a news conference precocious Tuesday nighttime aft the shooting.
Police said 1 suspect, recovered not excessively acold from the scene, is successful custody.
The officers responded to a telephone of idiosyncratic attempting to interruption into a conveyance astir 6:30 p.m. adjacent downtown Phoenix. When officers arrived, the fishy took disconnected moving and jumped a fence; the officers chased the fishy and were changeable at, Sullivan said.
Sullivan said helium spoke to the serviceman successful unchangeable condition: “He was traumatized. He conscionable been shot, and his spouse had conscionable been shot."
The officers' names haven't been released, and Sullivan said it was excessively aboriginal to find if they changeable astatine the suspect.
Sullivan said this incidental marks the 11th clip this twelvemonth that Phoenix officers person been changeable astatine successful the enactment of duty.
“What happened contiguous is senseless. It angers me. I anticipation you stock my anger," Sullivan said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
