Overview

• Officers were dispatched just after 3 a.m. to a disturbance near Southwest 64th Street and May Avenue, according to police.
• Investigators say the responding officer fired after being struck with boards and bricks, wounding a man who was transported to a hospital.
• Police have not released the man’s condition.
• The officer sustained minor injuries, was also hospitalized, and is expected to be okay, police said.
• Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said the officer was the only responder on scene and is on standard leave as detectives review evidence, with a neighbor reporting four gunshots.