A County officer and an alleged gunman were injured in a shootout Thursday afternoon in the Catonsville precinct parking lot during a shift change, according to police.

Baltimore County Police identified the officers who discharged their firearms after an armed subject opened fire in the parking lot of the Catonsville police department Thursday. The officer wounded in the shooting remains in guarded condition and under close observation at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

Sorting out the mayhem from an ambush shooting outside the Baltimore County Police station in Catonsville, police now say the officer shot may not have been the intended target.