A 26-year-old off-duty police officer was shot in the foot early today when he went to aid a security guard during a dispute outside a Crescentville bar and the guard's gun fell to the sidewalk and went off, authorities said.
As the officer headed to a hospital in a private vehicles, the two men involved in the dispute with the guard went to a parked SUV, retrieved a weapon and sprayed the bar with at least a dozen bullets, wounding a 23-year-old woman in the leg.
Both victims are expected to recover.
Police said the shooting erupted about 2:50 a.m. outside at Candela's Bar & Restaurant on the 700 block of Adams Avenue.
