OAKLAND (KCBS) – A burglary suspect was hospitalized after being shot Thursday by a private security guard trying to thwart a home burglary in the Oakland Hills.

A guard employed by Security Code 3 was patrolling the Oakmore neighborhood when he happened upon a burglary in progress on Harding Drive, according to the company’s regional manager, Richard McDermott.

The guard chased the suspected burglar onto a nearby street, eventually shooting him in the leg in a driveway on the 4000 block of Waterhouse Road shortly after 1 p.m.

“It’s distressing, to say the least,” McDermott said, adding that it was highly unusual for one of his officers to discharge a service weapon in the course of a patrol.