Officer Improving Slowly

From the Las Vegas Sun: "A Metro Police officer shot in the leg Tuesday by a suspected car thief is making improvements after numerous surgeries, police said Thursday.
Officer Mike Madland, 31, was shot twice while chasing a fleeing suspect who authorities said had been inside a stolen vehicle minutes earlier.
Madland, a three-year veteran of the force and a member of Metro’s saturation patrol, was shot twice: once in his bulletproof vest, which the round didn’t penetrate, and in his leg, where the bullet struck an artery. He was rushed to University Medical Center, where remains in critical condition after a number of surgeries.
Metro said doctors are hopeful his condition will improve to the point where he can undergo an additional surgery later Thursday."
Clearly, the officer is still in critical condition, so much so, that he is unable to undergo surgery at this time.
This part is interesting: "The report further stated that Beal jumped the wall at a home on Dolores, with an officer in pursuit. The officers aren’t identified in the report, but police on Wednesday gave an overview of events that indicated Madland pursued Beal. The second officer joined in the pursuit and when he entered the backyard, he "heard shots fired and found a LVMPD officer partially lying on the suspect." The second officer “saw the suspect pointing a black semi-automatic handgun at the downed officer” then “fired at the suspect to neutralize the threat against the downed officer.”" (emphasis mine)
So, apparently, the suspect was partially in custody but still a threat to the downed officer and that explains the 2 head shots. I predict there will be outrage, especially those on the left, saying that the officer executed the thug. I disagree, if the officer thought the thug was a danger to the downed officer, he was justified in killing the thug.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/25/police-report-outlines-events-shooting-metro-offic/
From the LVRJ: "Farias said she never saw the injured officer . She went to the hospital with her mother, whose condition had become worse after the chaos.
She returned to the house about 1 a.m. and spoke with a homicide investigator. It was at that point that she saw a new blood trail leading from the backyard all the way through her house to the driveway. Farias was told by police the blood trail belonged to an injured officer.
"It was a lot of blood. ... A pretty thick trail," she said.:
Once the officer was shot, the Metro officers took the officer through the home owner's house and probably to the street for treatment by the ambulance crew. The closest fire station is at Buffalo and Washington, about 1 mile away, so the ambulance probably got scene with 3-5 minutes after the incident was called into dispatch. I imagine this was pretty much a scoop and go, get the patient in the ambulance and work on the patient en route to the hospital. I would imagine the ambulance ride to the hospital was 10 minutes or less, especially with a police officer escort.
So, please, again, keep the officer in your prayers as he is still very sick and in critical condition.