Further details have become public and charges have been filed in an officer-involved shooting Wednesday.

Obinna Ogboya-Ekeh was shot and critically wounded by a D.C. police officer during an altercation Wednesday morning in an apartment complex near 7th and Q streets NW, police said.

Two MPD officers and two resident managers were performing a sweep of the Kelsey Garden Apartments on 7th Street about 9:45 a.m. The officers were sweeping the building after residents reported that vagrants had been breaking into vacant apartments and hanging about.

According to investigators, the officers knocked on the door of one apartment and entered. While sweeping the apartment, a man attacked an officer with a spiked weapon, police said. The two struggled. The officer, a 21-year veteran of the force, drew her weapon and fired, police said. Ogboya-Ekeh was shot in his face and his abdomen. He was taken to a hospital where he was reportedly in critical condition, and was scheduled for surgery. The man may have mental health issues, according to law enforcement sources.

The D.C. police officer suffered a knee injury during the incident. Ogboya-Ekeh has been charged with assault.

Residents say the injured officer is well known and well respected in the community.

"The officer who did the shooting is a good person and she knows everybody around here. if she fired her gun, it was in self-defense," said one neighborhood resident who didn't want to be identified.

The injured officer's partner was searching another area of the apartment during the altercation and did not witness it, police said.

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