LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- New video shows two Louisville Metro Police officers shot Tuesday night in the Smoketown neighborhood.

The shooting happened around 8 p.m. after officers from the department's Fourth Division made a stop of a person in the 400 block of Roselane Street, according to LMPD Deputy Chief Col. Emily McKinley.

Police said 19-year-old Jeremiah Thompson was standing outside of a Kia Soul that had been reported stolen two days ago. When officers approached Thompson, he admitted to driving the vehicle.

LMPD Officers Brendan Koerner and Lazman Acharya were the two officers shot during the attempted arrest.

Koerner is still at UofL Hospital after having surgery on his right hand. Acharya was shot in the leg but is now recovering at home.

Koerner has been with LMPD for six years, and Acharya has been with the department for three years.

Video shows police on top of Thompson while he's on the ground. He kept telling officers that he didn't do anything and was confused about what was happening.

As police tried to detain him, he resisted. LMPD said the officers were shot while trying to gain control of his hands when Thompson was laying on the ground.

After a shot was fired, Thompson was stood up and he yelled out how his hand was shot then police put him back on the ground.

Thompson was shot in the torso and arm but LMPD Chief Paul Humphrey said Wednesday that no officer fired their gun.

The police report said, "the subject discharged a round."

One of the officers has already been released from the hospital and is recovering at home as the other recovers at the hospital.

"The way that we serve others is by finding bad people who want to prey on the community, and we get them before they can get to the community," Humphrey said. "And so that's a pretty amazing thing, that people are willing to do that on a night-in, night-out basis."

A third officer was involved in the arrest but not hurt. Thompson is charged with assault of a police officer, wanton endangerment and receiving stolen property.

Humphrey said all officers had their body-worn cameras on and that video will be released the first week of December.

"One of the tragedies like officers getting shot is that it's a time for us to show how much we care about each other as opposed to going on our day-to-day," Humphrey said. "We can just pass by each other without expressing that. This was a time we share we really do need to take care of each other."

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