Man crashes into SUV, fires at Temple, Philly police and is wounded in shootout

Police then chased the suspect down Warnock Street from Norris into a breezeway between homes in the Norris Apartments complex. When police cornered the man, he pointed the weapon at them, Small said, and two officers fired, striking the man once in the right thigh.

In the wake of the police-involved shooting, neighbors looked on as officers and medics loaded the wounded suspect onto a gurney.

"The young man stood here and was letting off a few shots, then he ran from police," said Averis Henderson, 28, who’d been sitting on a porch outside a nearby house and witnessed the incident. "He was scared, he didn’t know what to do, but they told him to drop the gun five times."

The suspect was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he remained Tuesday morning in stable condition.

Police recovered the suspect’s gun at the scene, Small said, and found eight shell casings fired from the weapon.

As is protocol with police-involved shootings, Internal Affairs officers were at the scene investigating, and the officers who discharged their weapons were taken to be interviewed.

The PGW worker who’d been driving the rear-ended SUV was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital to be treated for minor back pain, police said. Small said no police or security officers were injured in the incident.

Cops were still investigating the shooting as of early this morning.