PHILADELPHIA – A suspect is dead and three Philadelphia police officers were hospitalized after an apparent shootout near 54th and Arlington streets in the city’s Wynnefield neighborhood late Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Police say officers responded to a report of a shooting around 10:33 p.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers arrived on the scene and found a car had been shot up and an individual who engaged the officers multiple times after they arrived on the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The officers asked that man to \u2018stand down,\u2019 and the man continued to engage the officers, according to Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel.<\/p>\n
When the officers then attempted to arrest him, the suspect drew a weapon and the exchange of gunfire ensued.<\/p>\n
Police say a total of four officers returned fire and the suspect was shot. He later succumbed to his injuries. As of early Sunday morning, police had only identified the suspect as a 57-year-old man.<\/p>\n
Three of the officers were also shot. One was shot in the face, another in the hip, and the third in the leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The officers are in stable condition. No other civilians or bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know:<\/p>\n
The names of the officers and suspect have yet to be released.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say they are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the original shooting, and the police-involved shooting.<\/p>\n
The Source: Information from the Philadelphia Police Department and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.<\/p>\n
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