Phoenix police say cops were shot trying to retrieve a baby during an early-morning standoff that left 5 officers injured

• Five police officers in Phoenix, Arizona were shot on Friday during a standoff outside of a home.
• Four of the officers were shot while trying to evacuate a baby from the scene.

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 of a shooting, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters.

A woman was also critically injured in the standoff, Williams said. She added that a man opened fire as an officer approached the house, striking the cop multiple times.

"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, Williams said.

"The suspect then barricaded himself in the home," she told reporters as the scene remained active.

The Phoenix 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 said four of the five officers are "recovering" and one was seriously injured, but "is on the road to recovery." A separate police official said the baby is "OK."

Williams called the shooting "senseless."

"It doesn't need to happen and it continues to happen over and over again," she said.

Williams pointed to the recent shooting of Phoenix police officer Tyler Moldovan, who was shot eight times in December while responding to a call. A tribal officer in Arizona, Preston Brogdon, was also shot earlier this week.

According to FBI crime statistics, released in October, killings of police officers rose by 51 percent over a nine-month span in 2021 compared to 2020. The FBI study said there was an increase in assaults against police between 2020 and 2019 — it said 4,071 more officers were assaulted in 2020 than in 2019, a 7 percent increase.

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