Man shot by Cook County sheriff's police after stabbing in La Grange Highlands, Illinois

A Cook County sheriff's police officer shot and wounded a man suspected of attacking two women in La Grange Highlands, Illinois.

At 5:30 p.m., a Cook County sheriff's police officer responded to a domestic violence call in the 6400 block of Joliet Road in the unincorporated community in Lyons Township. The officer found a man holding a woman at knifepoint, and the woman was visibly bleeding, according to Cook County sheriff's police.

A second woman was lying motionless and bleeding on the floor, police said.

The man began stabbing the woman he was holding at knifepoint again, police said. The officer fired one shot at the man and struck him, police said.

Both women and the alleged attacker were taken to area hospitals in unknown conditions, police said.