A 30-year-old man has been charged with shooting a Philadelphia police officer trying to break up a fight outside Overbrook High School on Wednesday afternoon, according to the city's police commissioner.

Dachan Seay was charged with aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer, illegal gun possession, reckless endangerment and related offenses, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel announced Thursday.

A spokesperson for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said prosecutors are requesting $5 million bail.

The shooting happened outside Overbrook High School around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday after police responded to reports of several fights breaking out. Police said that at some point, Seay was called into the area by someone or some people involved in the fights.

According to police, Seay came to the scene armed with a Ruger-57. He's accused of firing the gun with a rifle round into the ground. Police said the cartridge ricocheted and struck a 26-year-old police officer under his bulletproof vest.

The officer was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and into surgery, police said. Bethel said Thursday the officer is out of surgery but suffered a significant injury. Bethel said the officer is alert and talking and "on the road to recovery."

The officer has not been identified, but police said he had been on the job for under a year.

Bethel said Thursday that Seay has some type of connection to the people involved in the fights, but it's unclear what that is. Bethel said it could be familial.

"When you call adults to come into this space, then you're just as responsible as others," Bethel said. "And so you don't get to abdicate your responsibility because you're a student or someone who decides you want to call an adult into something that was going on at school. So my expectation is the school meets us at that same space, holding young people accountable."  

Bethel said Seay has a previous criminal record, including aggravated assault and retail theft.  

The police commissioner echoed his message from Wednesday, saying adults should heed this incident as a warning.

"You should not be engaged in this activity," Bethel said on Thursday. "You should not be coming up to school and aggravating. It is your job to de-escalate these situations. It's your job to come up to the school and work with those schools when those fights are occurring, not putting that all on policing and putting that on the school. It is parents' duty to do that. If everybody did their job, then our schools would not have these issues, nor would we have these issues with young people in the community."

A letter shared with the Overbrook High School community on Thursday said that emergency crisis counselors will continue to be available for students who are looking to talk about Wednesday's incident. 

The letter also says students and parents will likely see an increased presence of Philadelphia police and Office of School Safety officers at Overbrook High during dismissal at the end of school days. A police mobile mini-station has also been placed at the high school, according to the letter. 

"Violence is never an acceptable means of conflict resolution and we echo the District's commitment to teaching and reinforcing appropriate conflict resolution skills to our students and encourage students to seek solutions from a caring adult in our building if they need support," Julian Graham, the principal of Overbrook High School, wrote in the letter.

Graham wrote that the high school is cooperating with Philadelphia police in the investigation of the shooting and fight near Overbrook High.