Indiana Officer Shot While Serving Warrant Tuesday Night

A police officer was serving a warrant for two individuals when shots rang out and he was hit shortly before 9:30 Tuesday night in Lawrence, Indiana.

The officer was shot in the leg when one of the suspects allegedly exited from the back of the house and opened fire, WTHR reports.

Lawrence Police Chief Gary Woodruff indicated that a second Lawrence police officer used a tourniquet to help curtail the bleeding and two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers rushed the wounded officer to a hospital.

WISHTV notes that the wounded officer, who has been with Lawrence PD for “over three years,” was shot with a long gun.

The officer’s injury was non-life-threatening.

The suspect who shot the officer was killed when other officers returned fire.

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