Off-duty cop shoots attacker in Hunting Park

A man threw a brick at into her driver-side window and grabbed her by the neck, police said.

Crime scene unit and detectives pull bullet fragments from a near by tree after and under cover police officer shot a man allegedly attacking her in her car with some kind of brick in the Hunting Park area near Broad Street on Tuesday.Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer

Updated Feb. 4, 2020, 10:25 p.m. ET

Published Feb. 4, 2020, 8:59 p.m. ET

An off-duty police sergeant shot a man who allegedly attacked her Tuesday night in the city’s Hunting Park section, police said.

Just after 7:30 p.m., the sergeant was sitting in her car in the area of Park Avenue and Hunting Park Avenue when a man threw a brick into the driver’s side window and then grabbed the sergeant by the neck, police said.

The sergeant shot the man, who then fled. He was later arrested at 13th Street and Lehigh Avenue, was identified as the attacker, and then was taken to Temple University Hospital. His condition was not immediately available.

The sergeant was taken to Temple to be treated for minor injuries. No further details were provided.