casey nolan has been on the scene all night and has the latest. >> reporter: just after midnight early thursday morning police chief of st. louis county said three shots fired at his officer, two officers hit. a 41-year-old officer hit in the shoulder and a 32-year-old police officer from a nearby municipality was shot and hit in the face. we have not been given any official condition on either of these officers except to say they are conscious and that their families are with them at the hospital. as for where these shots came from, the police believe they came from a hill behind an area across from the police department where demonstrators had gathered. he does not know who fired the shots. he does not know precisely where the shots came from except to say they were up the hill across from the police department. there are no suspect descriptions, no suspects have been identified at least publicly at this time as police are still on the scene here in ferguson gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses and just about anyone who was even nearby at the time this happened. again, two p