Off-Duty Fresno Officer Shot at While on Phone with Wife

"It's difficult enough for a wife to know someone just tried to kill her husband," Fresno chief Dyer said. "But to hear all that and not be able to do anything about it has emotionally traumatized her."

An off-duty Fresno police officer was on the phone with his wife when a Bulldog gang member began shooting at him from another car at a southeast Fresno intersection Monday night, Chief Jerry Dyer told the Fresno Bee.

The officer, who was not injured, returned fire, wounding both the driver and the gun-wielding passenger as his wife remained on the line.

Dyer wouldn't name the officer but said he's been a regular officer for seven years and a reserve officer for two years.

"It's difficult enough for a wife to know someone just tried to kill her husband," Dyer said. "But to hear all that and not be able to do anything about it has emotionally traumatized her."

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