A man has been injured after being hit by police gunfire in North Linden on Sunday.

According to Columbus police, officials received a call Sunday morning from a person who claimed that an individual inside a residence on the 2900 block of Azelda Street had a firearm and wanted to "shoot it out with the police."

The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rodriguez Fitzgerald, had multiple violent felony warrants, including domestic violence and felonious assault, which prompted SWAT to respond. The team was serving the warrant when the man stepped out of the residence with a firearm and started firing shots at officers present at the scene, according to police.

At least one officer returned fire, striking Fitzgerald, who was then rushed to a nearby hospital. He was in critical condition but has since been upgraded to stable condition and is expected to survive his injuries.

Fitzgerald will be charged with felonious assault against a police officer, police said.

No officers or other individuals were injured during the shooting.

Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9 Vice President Brian Toth said in reaction to the incident that crime is rampant and the city is broken.

"Columbus has fallen," he said. "People just don't care anymore. And I feel that they don't respect law and order. They don't respect one another."

The area in North Linden was blocked off as Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation handles the investigation, as with all Columbus police shootings in which someone is injured or killed.

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Officer shoots, injures man with warrants in North Linden