MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee Police Officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect near 46th Street and Stark Avenue Thursday evening, according to authorities.
Authorities said the shooting happened when the officer was patrolling the area and was flagged down by a community member who reported two men flashing guns.
When the officers found the suspects, they fled on foot. The officer encountered one of the suspects, a 39-year-old male, in an alley. The suspect refused to drop his weapon, prompting the exchange of fire the left both the officer and the suspect hit.
The officer is a 30-year-old male with more than seven years of service, Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said. The officer was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries.
The suspect was also transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries.
A second suspect, a 19-year-old male, was arrested without incident.
Milwaukee police said two ghost gun fire arms were recovered following the incident.
Watch Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Police Chief Jeffrey Norman provide an update on the officer-involved shooting
"I'm very disappointed because the chief just talked about an officer who was shot, an officer who was shot when he was here helping out with patrols in this neighborhood, when incidences have happened here and there's been need for police presence in this neighborhood, additional police presence," Mayor Cavalier Johnson said during a press conference addressing the shooting.
The scene is just a block north of 46th and Hampton where less than a week earlier a quadruple shooting left one person dead and three injured. This makes a total of 10 people shot and three killed within a 23-block stretch of Hampton Avenue since last Friday.
"And further, I'm disappointed he was shot by a man who's 39 years old," Johnson added. "For real, for real. 39 years old, you're too damn old to be shooting at police officers at 39 years old. You're too damn old. And worse, you got a 19 year old kid with you. Why you doing this? You're supposed to be a role model for this young man."
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