Trucker shot after attacking Indiana cop outside Merrilville, Indiana Planned Parenthood Clinic

A 43-year-old truck driver is hospitalized in Indiana, recuperating from a gunshot wound he sustained after he attacked an off-duty police officer working a second job as security in a Merrilville Planned Parenthood clinic, police said.

Lake County Indiana officials are expected to charge the man with attempted murder of a police officer, said Robert Byrd, spokesman for the Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force which is investigating the incident.

At about 2 p.m. the off-duty Merrilville, Ind. police officer, who was working security at the Planned Parenthood offices on the 8600 block of Connecticut Street in Merrilville, spotted an unattended semi-truck in the parking lot and ticketed the vehicle, said Byrd.

The truck had Oregan plates and was hauling an empty refrigerated trailer but was vacant for several hours, said Byrd.

At 3:55p.m., when the trucker returned to his rig, the 8-year-veteran officer who was in uniform and had marked squad car, approached the driver to question him about leaving the vehicle behind and informing him about how to pay for the parking tickets, Byrd said.

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