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by Jesse Bunch Updated Aug. 21, 2025, 4:44 p.m. ET | Published Aug. 21, 2025, 4:28 p.m. ET

Chester police shot a man who fired a gun at them on Wednesday evening, Delaware County officials said.

The gunfire was exchanged around 11:35 p.m. on the 100 block of West 21st Street, the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Officers were responding to an unrelated service call in the area when they heard multiple gunshots ring out, police said. As officers moved toward the source of the gunfire, they said, a man — whom authorities did not identify — fired in their direction.

Several officers returned fire, striking and injuring the man, according to Katrina Bl

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