Two Atlanta cops shot on duty

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Photos from the scene at Cascade Road and Grady Hospital after two Atlanta police officers were shot.

Two police officers were shot Tuesday morning while questioning three people in an area of southwest Atlanta that has suffered a rash of burglaries, police said.

One officer was shot in the face and rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital. The other officer was hit in the chest but was wearing a bulletproof vest. A detective examines one of the officer's gun belts at the scene on Cascade Road.

"Neither of the officers have any life threatening problems," Dr. Jeffrey Salomone told reporters at Grady. "They're still being evaluated. I'm grateful to have good news to report to you."

The officers' names were not immediately released. But their fellow officers gathered at the emergency entrance of Grady Memorial Hospital to await word on their condition.

The shootings happened when the two officers, assigned to the Zone 4 precinct, were on patrol as part of an effort to curb the burglary problem. Here, a police officer walks from the scene of the shooting.

They saw two men and a woman sitting outside a house at 976 Cascade Road southwest and attempted to question them, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington said at a press conference at Grady.

Pennington said the officers asked the young people to approach and repeatedly ordered them to take their hands out of their pockets. One of the men pulled out an automatic weapon and fired at the officers, striking both, Pennington said.

The officers returned fire and killed the gunman and wounded the other man, he added. The wounded man and the young woman are in custody. A police SWAT team entered the house about 1 p.m. and spent about 20 minutes inside before leaving the scene.

Pennington said police are still investigating why the people were in front of the house.

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Two police officers were shot Tuesday morning while questioning three people in an area of southwest Atlanta that has suffered a rash of burglaries, police said.

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