A San Francisco police officer and a suspect were both critically wounded in a Halloween night gunbattle in a popular neighborhood for holiday celebrations, officials said Wednesday. Shots erupted when the 41-year-old officer approached a parked car in the city's Castro neighborhood to check on reports of a suspicious vehicle, San Francisco police Sgt. The neighborhood is a popular Halloween night gathering spot that has attracted as many as 250,000 people in the past to city-sanctioned parties. But San Francisco stopped sponsoring Halloween events in the Castro after nine people were shot in 2006, a culmination of other violent incidents over the years. The officer is a crime-scene investigator who was assigned to patrol on a busy Halloween night, the sergeant said.

Source: Fox News November 01, 2017 19:30 UTC