A police officer was injured in Philadelphia after his car was shot at Saturday morning, police said.
The officer was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and was in stable condition, the Philadelphia Police Department said. The department later confirmed that the officer was injured by "shattered glass".
The shooting happened around 2:30 a.m. NBC10 cameras showed a bullet hole on the driver’s side of the unmarked police vehicle, which was stopped and unoccupied at the intersection of Lindbergh Boulevard and South 58th Street in Southwest Philadelphia.
The PPD told NBC10 an officer was hurt on the 8400 block of Lyons Avenue in the Eastwick neighborhood. That location is around 10 minutes away from the scene at Lindbergh Boulevard and South 58th Street.
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Officers at the Eastwick location could be seen using flashlights to look inside and under vehicles.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and a large contingent of other officers gathered outside the emergency room early Saturday. Officers at the hospital did not comment on the shooting to NBC10.
Outlaw later tweeted that she was "very grateful to walk into the hospital and see our officer’s smiling, albeit bloody, face."
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"Our officers WILL NOT be deterred or intimidated by those that think they can victimize our communities without recourse; you will be found, and you will be arrested," she continued.
An arrest was not immediately announced. The investigation remained ongoing.
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