Man in his underwear shoots Detroit cop in the hand during struggle

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A Detroit police officer is expected to make a full recovery after being shot in the hand by a suspect on the city's west side. WWJ's Tim Pamplin reports on what led up to the struggle leading up to the gunfire.

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00:00The police shooting started here at the Valero gas station on Linwood. Reports

00:04of a man in mental crisis harassing customers sitting out here in just his

00:08underwear. Look, we got the video. Take a peek at this. There he is in his

00:12underwear just milling around here harassing customers at the Valero. That's

00:16when the police started getting calls of this man out here. He takes off from here,

00:20heads across Fullerton. You see him there in the crosswalk. Police officer sees him.

00:23Now this is an Adam unit. That's a single officer in a police car, no partner here.

00:27He sees the man, goes to try and help him. That's when the man takes off running.

00:31The officer gets him stopped down a couple of blocks south of here on Highland Street,

00:37the 2400 block of Highland right here. Officers are here now processing the scene.

00:43The man in his underwear, the one lone police officer got into some sort of a scuffle here

00:48outside of a house. Here's the Detroit Police Chief James White to update that situation.

00:54They begin to wrestle. The suspect is resisting the officer. At some point,

01:00he gets the officer's gun. As the officer attempts to get his gun back,

01:05the suspect fires one shot, striking our officer in his hand.

01:08I'll stay on the scene. I'll have updates all afternoon on WWJ News Radio 950.

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