A police officer shot and critically wounded a 21-year-old man who allegedly pointed a gun at him during a chase Thursday evening in North Philadelphia, a police spokesman said.
About 6 p.m., two Highway Patrol officers in a marked police car saw a drug transaction between two males at 29th and Huntingdon Streets, said Lt. Raymond Evers.
The officers got out of their car, and the chase led them to the 2500 block of North Newkirk Street, Evers said.
"The male pulls a handgun and aims it at the officer," who then fired two shots, striking the man once in the torso, Evers said.
