Man Fatally Shot After Grabbing Officer’s Gun

(AP) – A man who had voluntarily agreed to be taken to a psychiatric hospital by Philadelphia police grabbed an officer’s gun outside of the facility and wounded him before being fatally shot by another officer. The city police commissioner says the wounded officer’s bulletproof vest spared him from serious injury. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday at Friends Hospital. Commissioner Kevin Bethel says the two city officers had encountered the man earlier Thursday after he was seen walking in traffic, and he agreed to go to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. The man was driven to the hospital in a police van but was not handcuffed because he had agreed to go voluntarily.