vehicle, followed him, and he shot at the grill of the police vehicle, and from there, those detectives still in the vehicle shot at the suspect. the suspect then went took off running and got to a fenced in area where he couldn t get away anymore, and those four plain clothed officers, detectives on the force from 6-12 years, veterans of the force, they shot at the suspect. the suspect was critically injured. he is in critical, unstable condition, and according to the police chief, in surgery at this hour. that s really all we know. we do not know his denty, but something very key to this press conference is that the police chief is also asking for the public s help in finding the others who were involved in this shooting. he says, we cannot do this alone. we need the public s help finding the rest of the group that fired the shots. he says it s a small group of people intent on not having peace prevail. that is what we understand went down this evening.
and just behind a line of police in riot gear watching over a small group of protesters. 40 to 50 shots fired between two groups. one of the men involved peeled off and turned his weapon on those plain-clothes detectives, fired on their vehicles. and that s when they returned fire. the suspect hit. he is in critical, unstable condition. and in surgery right now here. tensions remain high, as you would expect. police say they are very concerned about the potential for more violence here. a lot of emotions, i get it. but this is something different. we can t sustain this as a community as we move forward. we have other individuals out there who are armed right now, part of this group. we need the public s help. we can t do it by ourselves. we have to have the community out here, helping us, working with us to identify this and to make this stop. reporter: we are learning more from police about the
gunfire strikes the hood. i don t know if you have seen pictures yet. three or four times strike the windshield four or five times. the plain-clothed detectives return fire from inside the van but they don t know if they hit him or not. they don t really know. the suspect ran to the east on the north side of that building. he turned back around as the detectives got out of the car. the shots were fired again. he ran around behind the building out of the south, that s a fenced area back there. there was really nowhere to go at that point. he engaged the officer at the time. there were four offices in that van. all four fired at the suspect and the suspect fell there. the suspect is in a local hospital. he is in critical, unstable condition, in surgery. the officers were wearing while they are plain-clothed officers they were wearing vests that said police on them at the time. there was another plain-clothed
the suspect engages them with gunfire. they return fire from the inside of the van. reporter: officers were involved in heavy gunfire in two shootings sunday night. in one incident police say a suspect shot directly at plain clothes officers with a stolen .9 millimeter. there were four officers in that van . all four fired at the suspect and the suspect fell there. he is in critical, unstable condition. reporter: i captured gunshots on camera as i interviewed ferguson s interim police chief. angry protesters clashing with police hurling bottles and bricks at officers. police deploying tear gas. two businesses were damaged and luted. bullet holes in police cruisers caught in the cross fire. it followed a day of peaceful