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Shively police said the officer who was shot Friday morning was serving a narcotics warrant.According to police, Officer Wes Singleton was shot at least four times in the lower half of his body around 11 a.m. in the 4100 block of Eden Lane.Police have not named a suspect in the case, but a woman inside the home at the time was arrested on an outstanding trafficking warrant.She has been identified as Loretta Harris, 51.Friday evening, Shively Police Chief Kevin Higdon said the officer had made it out of surgery and was "doing well.""I just told him, 'We are here. We are good. I hope you're going to be OK,' and he's good," Higdon said, speaking to the media outside University Hospital.Higdon said Singleton is part of the special investigations unit and was serving a narcotics search warrant when he was shot. Singleton has been with Shively police for six years.Singleton was sitting up on a stretcher as he was rushed into University Hospital.“A lot of emotion. You know, anybody that wears this uniform knows that this job is difficult and anytime that you know that an officer has been shot or wounded, it touches you at the heart,” Higdon said.Higdon said it is especially hard because Singleton is a husband and a father.“Everybody gets affected. This job is dangerous. We know it's dangerous but that's what we do to protect other people,” Higdon said.Higdon said Singleton had gone into the home on Eden Lane with eight other officers to serve the narcotics search warrant. Less than five minutes later, he said, there was gunfire. Higdon said officers returned fire, wounding one man.The man was taken to University Hospital but late Friday night, Higdon said his condition was unknown. Higdon said that man and others inside the home will be charged by LMPD officers with the Public Integrity Unit, now handling the investigation.While doctors are optimistic about Singleton's recovery, there is no word on just how soon he could be released.Jody Ratliff was at home around 11 a.m. Friday when he heard police sirens. He rushed outside and watched as the scene unfolded."There were police cars everywhere, officers running up and down the streets with assault rifles and shotguns," he said.In fact, in video he recorded, an officer was heard yelling at Ratliff to get inside his home.Linda Minor lives even closer to the home and saw Singleton just moments later being rushed away on a stretcher."The police officer was being wheeled down the road here really fast. There was a lot of police beside him and they were running him down the road," she recalled. "It's heartbreaking. He just came, I guess, somebody said, he came to serve a warrant and then he ends up shot."Some neighbors said they didn't hear gunshots and were shocked to learn about the shooting.They described the neighborhood as a quiet one.Many neighbors said they weren't home when it happened, but when they came back their neighborhood looked a lot different from when they left it."It's two or three houses down from ours and we heard the address, and it's just scary hearing there's an active shooting in your front yard,” said a neighbor who asked only to be identified as Amy."Cops were everywhere. I've never seen that many cops before in my life. It was crazy,” neighbor Avery Neuwirth said.The shooting left some people who live in the area with an uneasy feeling. "It's kind of scary because you don't know what you're living next to basically. You don't know what could happen,” Minor said.Others said that while it is scary, it doesn't make them want to leave."It makes it sound like a bad neighborhood, which isn't the case. We've got a great neighborhood with some great neighbors,” Amy said.Police are still in the area collecting evidence.People who live in the houses behind the police tape have been told to park their cars outside of the tape and walk to their homes.Louisville Metro Police Department is investigating because of the officer-involved shooting aspect of the case.Other agencies are helping cover for the Shively Police Department while its officers are at the hospital with Singleton.“You can't thank every agency that's involved, that gets involved in something like that. We've got agencies, officers from other agencies that are patrolling and protecting our citizens right now while we're here. You know, we can't thank any department enough that helped,” Higdon said.