Officer shot by partner, suspect wounded on west side of Milwaukee

A Milwaukee police officer responding to a domestic dispute shot his partner in the foot and a 48-year-old male suspect in the leg on the west side Thursday, police said.

According to Milwaukee police:

The officers were called to a home in the 600 block of S. Hawley Road shortly before 6 p.m. after a report of a "suspect armed with knives."

During the incident, a 21-year-old male officer with less than one year of experience discharged his service weapon, striking the 48-year-old man in the leg and his 25-year-old male partner in the foot.

Both the officer and the suspect were being treated at a hospital Thursday night and their injuries are not life-threatening.

Both officers are assigned to the District 3 police station and the officer who fired his weapon has been placed on administrative duty.

The incident is under investigation by the Milwaukee Police Department Metropolitan Investigations Unit, police officials said.

At the scene, Inspector Thomas Stigler said certain details of the shooting, such as whether the suspect was accosting or threatening the officers with the knives, the number of shots fired and the exact location of the shooting, remained under investigation.