Two PG Police Officers Shot In Narcotics Raid: Reports

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD — Two Prince George's County police officers are recovering after being shot Wednesday night while serving a search warrant in a narcotics investigation, according to media reports. The two officers were flown to a Baltimore hospital for treatment and were listed in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries, radio station WTOP reported.

The police did not release the names of the officers Thursday. The Police Department tweeted at about 11 p.m. Wednesday that the shooting occurred at an apartment in the 2700 block of Lorring Drive in District Heights, near the Penn Mar Shopping Center, WTOP reported.

At about 10:30 p.m., a nine-person tactical team entered an apartment to execute a search warrant for the Police Department's narcotics division, a police spokeswoman said.

Once they opened the door, an armed individual inside the apartment shot at the officers, striking one in the hand and another around the shoulder, WTOP reported.

Another officer, whom the police spokeswoman described as the "point man," fired one bullet back at the armed individual, but it "did not take effect," she said.

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The police took the armed individual into custody, along with another person in the apartment. A medic on the tactical team treated the two wounded officers before they were flown by helicopter to the Baltimore shock-trauma center, WTOP reported.

Image: Prince George's Police Department