Two Off-Duty Police Officers Injured After Incident

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No one is as yet reported to have died. One officer was shot on the chest, the other in the neck per on scene EMS...

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(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) -- An early morning shooting outside a Granite City sports bar has reportedly left two off-duty St. Louis City police officers wounded. The two are hospitalized, one with blunt head trauma and another with serious gun-shot wounds. As of this report, it appears that one off duty officer who shot him. A civilian was also injured in this scuffle.

An attorney who represents St. Louis city police officers tells FOX 2 that several off-duty city officers had been attending a wedding and as they were driving around 1:15 this morning, a car cut them off. A scuffle ensued outside Mac and Mick’s Sports Bar in Granite City and a St. Louis City officer, who'd been struck in the head, fired his weapon in self-defense, wounding another off-duty officer.

FOX 2 will bring you more details as they become available.

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An early morning shooting outside a Granite City sports bar has reportedly left two off-duty St. Louis City police officers wounded. The two are hospitalized, one with blunt head trauma and another with serious gun-shot wounds. As of this report, it appears that one off duty officer who shot him. A civilian was also injured in this scuffle.

Jeebus... that paragraph makes less sense than any news item I have read in months. I would say this is what happens when television takes over the news journalism business. But I've seen just as bad out of newspaper writers too. :?