OGDEN -- Three police officers opened fire and wounded a man who took aim at them with a handgun Saturday night.

Joey Conrad, 19, Ogden, was hit by gunfire four times during the confrontation, suffering serious but not life-threatening wounds. He was listed in serious but stable condition Monday and remained under police guard at McKay-Dee Hospital.The incident began shortly before 10 p.m. when trooper Chris Williams tried to pull over an erratic driver, said Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Rich Wilder. The motorist sped away and the trooper gave chase.

"It was a very short chase. The driver stopped on his own and immediately got out of his vehicle and pointed a handgun at trooper Williams," Wilder said. "He (Williams) ordered him to put it down."

Each time the trooper repeated the order, the man replied, "Shoot me. Shoot me," Wilder said.

At that point, the motorist was standing in the middle of the street along the 2800 block of Pingree Avenue. Within 15 to 20 seconds, Ogden police officers Kenneth Huckaby and Thomas Hanselman arrived on the scene, and the motorist stepped back toward the sidewalk.

Huckaby and Hanselman joined the UHP trooper in ordering the man to drop his weapon, said Ogden Police Lt. Mike Ashment. Instead, the man "racked the action" -- loaded a cartridge in the chamber of his semi-automatic pistol -- and pointed it at the officers.

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All three officers then fired their weapons, hitting Conrad in the shoulder and torso. There didn't appear to be any return fire from Conrad, according to Wilder.

Stray bullets struck three nearby homes, penetrating the wall of one of them, but no one was injured.

All three officers were placed on routine administrative leave pending a review of the shooting by the two agencies involved and the Weber County attorney's office.

The shooting was the second this year involving Ogden police. On Jan. 17, an Ogden officer shot and killed Joshua Eric West, 23, after West lunged at him with a knife. The Weber County attorney's office concluded last month that the deadly force in that case was justified.

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