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,

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.