A Philadelphia police officer was shot outside Friends Hospital Thursday, but avoided serious injury because his bullet-resistant vest stopped the bullet, officials said.The 30-year-old officer and his partner were dropping off a man at the hospital to be committed for mental health issues when the man began struggling with them,

A Philadelphia police officer was shot outside of a hospital in Crescentville on Thursday afternoon, police said. The officer, whom police did not identify, was struck by a bullet outside Friends Hospital, on the 4600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard, shortly before 1 p.m., police said.

A man was killed by police after he stole an officer's gun and shot one of the officers in the vest while he was being transported to the hospital in Northeast Philadelphia's Crescentville neighborhood,