PHILADELPHIA - A man was shot by a Philadelphia police officer Wednesday morning after police say he attacked officers with a screwdriver inside the 39th Police District building.The incident occurred just before 9:20 a.m.
inside the district headquarters located on the 2200 block of West Hunting Park Avenue. Police say an officer who was working in the operations room went to speak with a man who was in the lobby wearing a mask.
The officer was unable to hear the man through a glass window in the operations room. The officer opened the secure side door to the operations room to go and speak with the 23-year-old suspect.
At that point, Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric Gripp says the suspect lunged into the operations room and at the officer. The suspect, who was armed with a screwdriver, began fighting with an officer inside the operations room, according to police.