CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Chicago police officer was shot Saturday morning in Austin on the West Side.
Officers were investigating reports of gunfire about 11:25 a.m. in the 100 block of North La Crosse Avenue when someone fired shots at them, according to police.
When more units arrived to search for the shooter, the gunman fired again, striking an officer on the hand, police said.
She was taken in a squad car to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The wound was not considered life-threatening.
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Officers returned fire but did not hit the suspect, who was thought to still be barricaded in a building in the area Saturday afternoon, police said. A SWAT team was called to the scene.
Another officer was hospitalized for “minor distress,” according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
The officer who was shot is the third from the police department to suffer a gunshot wound in less than a week.
On Monday, an off-duty officer was ambushed by two gunmen at a red light in Calumet Heights on the South Side. And last Sunday, an on-duty Chicago police sergeant was shot while standing in the parking lot of the Gresham District police station, 7808 S. Halsted St.
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