Igor Vershinsky/iStock(JERSEY CITY, N.J.) — A New Jersey police officer has been shot by two suspects who had been firing from a local bodega, police said on Tuesday.
The officer was responding to a call of two suspects in the bodega at Wilkinson Avenue and Martin Luther King Dr. in Jersey City, police said.
When the officer arrived, the suspects opened fire with long guns.
The officer was taken to a local hospital with an apparent shoulder injury, ABC New York station WABC reported.
The Sacred Heart School nearby has been placed on lockdown, according to the station.
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