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A Vancouver police officer was critically injured in a shooting during a traffic stop Monday, sending all available officers on a two-hour manhunt before the last of two suspects was detained.

A motorcycle officer with the Vancouver traffic unit pulled over a vehicle near Northeast 162nd Avenue and 34th Street at about 11:30 a.m. The vehicle was stolen, police said. After the officer did not respond to a dispatcher, a resident came on the radio and said the officer had been shot, Vancouver police Lt. Scott Creager said.

The officer suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was in critical condition Monday at a local hospital, Vancouver police Chief James McElvain said at a press conference Monday afternoon. A source said the officer’s ballistic vest helped saved his life.

Nearby resident Jerry Kneppers said he came home from work Monday morning to eat lunch and let his dogs out when he heard several gunshots. He said he peeked over his wooden fence near 34th Street to see an older woman stop her silver Volkswagen Jetta, get out and help the officer.

“She was kind of holding him up and wrapping him up,” he said.

By the time he ran out of his house, Kneppers said, the officer was on the ground and the woman was cradling him. She had wrapped a towel or scarf around his neck and arm, he said. Kneppers called 911.