A suburban Atlanta police officer was shot in the chest late Friday afternoon after confronting a pair of robbery suspects, a law enforcement official said.
Two officers were chasing the robbery suspects when the suspects crashed into a gas station in Tucker, a city of 27,500 people about 20 miles northeast of Atlanta, DeKalb County Director of Public Safety Cedric Alexander said.
The officers got out of their car and one of them was shot, according to Alexander, who is also a CNN law enforcement analyst.
The officer was taken by helicopter to Atlanta’s Grady Hospital.
The two robbery suspects were taken into custody. It was not immediately clear if either suffered injuries or if either of the DeKalb officers opened fire.