2 officers trying to serve warrant are wounded

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two undercover narcotics officers were shot Tuesday evening while trying to serve a warrant, the latest in a spate of police shootings that has left one city officer dead this year.

One officer was shot in the leg, the other was hit in the hip. Both were reported to be in stable condition at hospitals.

The injured plainclothes officers, who were wearing badges when they were shot around 6:30 p.m., also were being assisted by uniformed officers positioned at the front and the back of the house, Johnson said. Three hours after the shooting, police continued to surround the house.

Johnson said police trying to serve the warrant rang the door bell twice and then used a battering ram on the door. The shooter then fired through a window, he said.

The shootings happened less than two weeks after Officer Chuck Cassidy, 54, was shot in the head when he walked in on a robbery at a doughnut shop on Oct. 31. He died the next day. A suspect was arrested days later in Miami and is now in custody in Philadelphia.

About 12 hours before Cassidy was fatally shot, a traffic officer was shot in the shoulder during a chase downtown. In September, a rookie officer was shot in the face with a shotgun by a man who jumped out of a car during a traffic stop.