Two Baton Rouge, Louisiana Police Department officers were shot and wounded late Friday when they and a third officer confronted a man in a Hanks Drive apartment after pursuing him during a high-speed car chase, authorities said.
At least one of the officers — including a six-year veteran of the force struck by a bullet in the right forearm and a 10-year veteran hit by a bullet in the abdomen — returned fire at the man inside the apartment, hitting him multiple times, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely said. All three injured men were then taken by Emergency Medical Services to area hospitals.
The officer shot in the abdomen went through surgery early Saturday and was listed in fair condition in intensive care at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, McKneely said. The officer shot in the arm was treated at Our Lady of the Lake and then released, while the suspect was admitted to LSU Earl K. Long Medical Center.
The names of the officers involved were not released Saturday by the Police Department because of its policy to wait 24 hours after an officer-involved shooting, but East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks identified the man as Christopher Joseph Johnson, 27, of 6515 Hanks Drive.
Deputies do not know when Johnson, who was shot four times — two of them superficial wounds — would be released from the hospital, Hicks said. Upon his release, she said, Johnson would be booked into Parish Prison on three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer and one count each of fleeing to elude and felon in possession of a firearm.
Court and police records show Johnson, who pleaded guilty in 1999 to armed robbery and was sentenced to eight years in Parish Prison, also had an outstanding warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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