A Philadelphia police officer was shot outside Friends Hospital Thursday, but avoided serious injury because his bullet-resistant vest stopped the bullet, officials said.The 30-year-old officer and his partner were dropping off a man at the hospital to be committed for mental health issues when the man began struggling with them,

The officer was shot in his ballistic vest outside Friends Hospital early Thursday afternoon, police said. A man who grabbed a Philadelphia police officer’s gun and then shot him with it was killed by the officer’s partner Thursday afternoon outside a hospital in the city’s Crescentville section, police said.