The officer was responding to a robbery at a smoke shop nearby.
-- A police officer was shot and wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a robbery suspect west suburban Lombard Thursday afternoon.
The smoke shop staff called 911 as the robbery was taking place. Meanwhile the suspects left and walked into a residential rea just to the north, CBS 2's Kris Habermehl reported.
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