3 police officers hurt in shootout

CHAMPAIGN – Deputy Police Chief John Murphy was thankful this morning as he rested in his Mahomet home after being injured in a shootout involving Champaign police and an apparently homeless man.

Murphy, another male officer and a female officer and the homeless man were wounded in a "near-worst-case" shooting near West Side Park on Thursday evening.

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