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 in a harrowing shootout with police outside a Philadelphia hospital Thursday. The incident began around 12:24 p.m. when officers stopped the man, who was experiencing a mental health crisis, while he was running through traffic, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.