One Dallas police officer is dead and two wounded after a shooting in Oak Cliff late Thursday night, Dallas police said.

They responded to an officer in distress call in the 900 block of E. Ledbetter Drive just after 10 p.m. Thursday.

Officers found one officer shot in a patrol vehicle, a spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department, Kristin Lowman, said in a press conference early Friday morning.

Gunshots were exchanged between the responding officers and a suspect at the scene. Two officers were shot.

All three officers were taken to local hospitals. One is dead, one is in critical condition and the third is in stable condition, Lowman said.