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Via: Fox News
PHILADELPHIA - The bar at the center of a chaotic scene that left a Philadelphia officer wounded is closed as police try to search for clues to find the suspect that shot him.
The officer is recovering from surgery Monday on his gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Officer Ashley Hoggard, 26, was wounded around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, while responding to a call of a big bar fight near Franchise Sports Bag & Grille at Broad and Somerset streets.
Licenses & Inspection officers and Pennsylvania State Police put a cease operations order on the bar, after a raid Monday afternoon, citing it for being a public nuisance and other violations.
"Shut them down as a public nuisance, contributing to the allowance of violence/life safety behavior," said Kevin Daly of Licenses & Inspection.
Police said surveillance video recorded moments before four people -- including the officer -- were shot shows alleged gunmen handing out weapons.
Police have not publicly released the video footage at this time because it's too vital to the investigation.
Police said the video from the bar shows a gun being handed off to two different people after the first victim was shot multiple times outside the bar.
Officer Ashley Hoggard was struck after he and his partner got out of their cruiser near 13th and Somerset Streets.
Police said Hoggard was ducking between two parked cars for cover when the bullet hit his shoulder, just above the area protected by a bullet-resistant vest. A third shooting took place around the corner near Rush Street.
Inside the bar, police saw something else on tape.
"An individual with some type of trash bag handing out guns," said Deputy Commissioner Bill Blackburn of Philadelphia Police. "It's a very, very disturbing video, in terms in the amount of firepower that's being handed out at the time right after a police officer's shot."
The three-year force veteran's partner rushed him to Temple University Hospital.
Police said the two officers never even had a chance to return fire.
Nearly 30 shots were fired in all, according to witnesses. At least one gun was recovered afterward, police said.
Hoggard was listed in good condition and improving Monday after surgery for internal bleeding.
The three other men who were wounded are all expected to recover. One of the shooting victims, already released from a hospital, is said to be cooperating with the police investigation.
Commissioner Charles Ramsey said of whoever shot the officer, "He knows he shot somebody. I guess by now he knows he shot a police officer, but he certainly was very reckless in his behavior and easily could have killed three or four people."
Asked what he would tell the gunman who shot the officer, Ramsey answered, "Go to the nearest police station, turn yourself in and let's get this whole matter resolved and put it in the system."
Police are vowing this time to get the man who shot one of their own.
"We're proceeding as though this was an intentional act," said Deputy Commissioner Blackburn.
"We're going to continue to look for him," Ramsey said. "I mean, anybody who would shoot wildly down the street like that, not only striking a police officer but three other people -- we still don't know exactly what it's all about, but we will find the person responsible."
This was the second time in the past 18 months that four people were shot outside Franchise Sports Bar & Grille. The last quadruple shooting was during the same timeframe, between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., but that incident left two people dead.
“We're gonna look at the number of service calls, we're gonna look at the violence associated with and then make a determination as to the closing of that spot,” said Blackburn.
The bar manager insists the trouble started outside the bar. She says that she cooperated with police, called 9-1-1 to report the officer's shooting and has four security guards inside at all times. She says everyone is searched for a weapon as they enter. She does not believe the bar should be shut down.
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