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Las Vegas shooting: Officers ambushed at traffic light, police say

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(CNN)  A man ambushed two officers who'd stopped their patrol car at a traffic light Sunday in Las Vegas, police said. An officer who was shot in the hand was being treated at a hospital, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan said. He was in good condition. "Luckily -- I want to repeat, luckily -- our officer was only hit in the hand. It could have been much, much worse," he said. Police haven't released the identity of the suspect. The suspect gave authorities multiple addresses and was "not very forthcoming as far as identity, as far as where he lives," the sergeant told CNN, explaining, "That's been pinned down now." The Clark County, Nevada, district attorney will elaborate during a news conference Tuesday, Sheahan said. The officers were in a marked patrol car, police said, responding to a disturbance call at a 99-cent store. As they sat at the intersection in front of the store, waiting for the light to change so