Five Phoenix, Arizona, police officers were shot during a chaotic standoff situation early Friday during which, at one point, cops were fired at while trying to retrieve a baby, authorities said.
The gunfire unfolded after Phoenix Police Department officers were called to a home over a report a shooting, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters.
A woman was also critically injured in the standoff, Williams said.
As an officer approached the house, a man opened fire, striking the cop multiple times, according to the chief.
"There was a baby in the home who at some point was placed in a carrier and placed outside," Williams said.
When police went to go bring the baby to safety, the suspect continued to shoot, hitting four other cops who then returned fire, according to Williams.
"The suspect then barricaded himself in the home," Williams told reporters as the scene remained active.
The police department said in a tweet at around 8 a.m. local time that the "barricade situation has been resolved" and that there was "no threat to the public."
Williams called the shooting "senseless."
"It doesn't need to happen and it continues to happen over and over again," she said.
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