Hispanic male attacks a woman in gas station, disarms a responding officer shooting him.

THORNTON, Colo. — A Thornton officer who was shot early Wednesday morning during a struggle with a man over his service weapon is now out of the hospital and resting at home, according to a department spokesperson.

Officers first contacted the man, later identified as 27-year-old Gilberto Vazquez Carnero, who was a suspect in an assault that had just occurred at a nearby gas station, around 3:30 a.m., the Thornton Police Department said.