A concealed carry permit holder reportedly came to the aid of a Farrell, Pennsylvania, police officer during a shootout early Friday morning.
"He had a valid concealed-carry permit, he had a gun," Mercer County District Attorney Peter C. Acker told The Sharon Herald. "He went to where the police officer was and fired on the suspect."
No information was given on whether the civilian hit the suspect.
Acker said the suspect, identified only as a 49-year-old white man, was undergoing treatment Friday evening at a hospital in Youngstown for life-threatening injuries.
The man was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police shortly after midnight outside a convenience store in Farrell. The incident began when a Farrell police officer encountered the man and determined that the man, who has not been named, was carrying a weapon.
After the man was wounded, he still refused to surrender the weapon. Acker said the police officer also fired bean-bag rounds during the incident, and police used an armored personnel carrier provided by Mercer County Critical Incident Response Team to disarm the man.
