Man wounded in police-involved shooting

A 20-year-old man was hospitalized in serious-to-critical condition this afternoon after being shot in a police-involved shooting in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Fire paramedics were called to the 5600 block of West Augusta Boulevard at 1:18 p.m..
Austin police district tactical officers were conducting an investiation in the area of Parkside Avenue and Augusta Boulevard when they saw a man individual holding an object they believed to be a handgun in the rear of a home on the 900 block of N. Parkside. The officers pursued the man who fled up the rear stairs.
One officer fired his weapon and struck the man who sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Initial reports indicated that the man may have been shot in the chest and hand
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