Philadelphia police officer coming to aid of security officer www.privateofficer.com
Philadelphia PA June 8 2012 A 26-year-old off-duty police officer was shot in the foot early today when he went to aid a security guard during a dispute outside a Crescentville bar and the guard’s gun fell to the sidewalk and went off, authorities said.
As the officer headed to a hospital in a private vehicles, the two men involved in the dispute with the guard went to a parked SUV, retrieved a weapon and sprayed the bar with at least a dozen bullets, wounding a 23-year-old woman in the leg.
Both victims are expected to recover.
Police said the shooting erupted about 2:50 a.m. outside at Candela’s Bar & Restaurant on the 700 block of Adams Avenue.
According to police, the unarmed off-duty officer saw the security guard struggling with one of two men outside the bar and went to help.
As the officer walked out the door, the security guard’s gun fell and went off, police.
Wounded in the foot, the officer got in car and went to Nazareth Hospital. (He was later transferred to Temple University Hospital.)
The two men in the meantime went to a Toyota RAV, grabbed handguns and fired at the security guard, missing him but wounding the woman, police said.
Police are seeking the assailants, who fled after the shooting.
source-philly.com
