SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A California Highway Patrol officer is recovering from a life-threatening injury after he was slashed by in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood Tuesday morning, police said.

The wounded officer, a 7-year veteran with the CHP, was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he had surgery. The CHP officer was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with “pretty significant” injuries that were considered life-threatening, police said.

The CHP officer is out of surgery and listed in stable condition as of 5 p.m., according to police.

The incident occurred shortly after 9:30 a.m. in the area of Essex and Harrison streets, police said.

Police have identified the suspect who allegedly slashed a California Highway Patrol officer’s throat in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood as Noel Corpuz, 44.

According to officials, the CHP officer was responding to calls of a pedestrian walking on the Bay Bridge on-ramp. The officer was allegedly slashed while contact with the suspect who then fled the scene.

A second officer chased the suspect but stopped after noticing his partner was severely wounded.

Additional units responded to the scene and the suspect was later detained in a parking lot at Fourth and Freelon streets, nearby where the incident took place, an official said.

The Fourth Street off-ramp from eastbound I-80 was blocked off while police investigated the incident.

The officer is a seven-year veteran of the CHP, he said.

“This type of incident just really shocks us,” said CHP Cmdr. Christopher  Sherry, who spoke to reporters outside the hospital’s emergency room.

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