Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A police officer is hospitalized after being critically wounded in a shootout in Colorado.
Colorado Springs police Chief Pete Carey says Officer Cem Duzel was among a group of officers who responded to a report of shots fired east of downtown about 2:45 a.m. Thursday. Carey says they found an armed suspect, there was an exchange of gunfire, and Duzel was wounded.
Authorities say the suspect was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
At a news conference, Carey said it has been a difficult year for law enforcement and asked people to keep Duzel, his family and the department in their thoughts and prayers.
A sheriff’s deputy was killed in a shootout in Colorado Springs in February, one of three Colorado officers killed in a five-week span.
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