A St. Louis police officer was shot Friday while trying to stop a car wanted in connection with a robbery, officials said. Officers spotted the vehicle around 6 p.m. in the 3700 block of Nebraska Avenue, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief John Hayden told reporters outside the hospital where the injured officer was being treated. The department said the officer was possibly injured near the eye from broken glass and took himself to the hospital. "When I got here I saw him smiling… so I was very thankful," Hayden said about the injured officer. St. Louis had 87 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2020, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the worst rate in the country.

Source: Fox News May 29, 2021 00:08 UTC