Shooting Leaves San Francisco Officer in Critical Condition

A San Francisco police officer was in critical condition after being shot while exchanging gunfire with a man in the city’s Castro neighborhood during Halloween celebrations early Wednesday, authorities said. The suspect was also wounded and hospitalized, reports the San Francisco Chronicle .

While police have said little about what happened, the incident appears to have begun when an armed man locked himself inside a car around midnight and ignored police orders to stand down. Both the suspect and an officer, identified only as a 41-year-old crime scene investigator, were wounded in subsequent gunfire.

Emergency dispatch recordings indicate that the officer was shot in the stomach and the hand. He was taken into surgery about 5 a.m. and remained in critical condition, said Brent Andrew, a spokesman for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The condition of the suspect, who was not identified, was not disclosed.