UPDATE: Donald J. Friese has been found in southern Illinois.
GRANITE CITY, Ill. – The Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office has filed charges in absentia against a man wanted for shooting a Granite City police officer .
The shooting happened just after 10 p.m. Tuesday in an alleyway at Delmar Avenue and 25th Street.
Two Granite City police officers responded to a home on the 2400 block of Delmar for a call about a suspicious person. ISP investigators claim that shortly after the officers made contact with that individual, he fired several shots at the officers, striking one of them in the arm.
The officers fired back and the suspect took off. The wounded officer was taken to a hospital and has since been released.
At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Granite City Police Chief Nick Novacich identified the suspected shooter as Donald J. Friese.
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According to Novacich, Friese was charged Wednesday morning with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, and one count of unlawful use or possession of a weapon by a felon. Friese remains at large.