A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger." 
 
 Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday. 
 
 In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends. 
 
 Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway. 
 
 No charges are expected against the driver. The name of the man who was struck has not been released. He was in stable condition Monday night. ||||| — A 23-year-old man was hit by a sport utility vehicle this week after intentionally stepping out into traffic while he was playing a game. 
 
 Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon is withholding the man’s name, saying that he does not want to cause any more discord for the 23-year-old or for the woman who was driving the SUV that hit him. 
 
 The man was hit Monday night around 9 p.m., and is expected to be released from AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson later this afternoon . 
 
 Dixon said the man lives in the city but is not a student at Clemson University. 
 
 The man was hit at U.S. 76 and College Avenue in Clemson. 
 
 Before he was hit, the man and two of his friends had been discussing a game known as “Frogger.” The arcade game was released in the early 1980s, and in it, players try to move frogs through a busy road and a dangerous river. 
 
 During the discussion of the game, the man yelled, “Go,” and then started darting into the highway with oncoming traffic. 
 
 He was hit by a white 2010 Lexus SUV. 
 
 No charges are anticipated against the driver of the SUV, Dixon said. 
 
 Dixon said alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in the man’s decision to step out in front of traffic. But the chief cannot confirm that, he said, because there are no blood-alcohol test results available yet. 
 
 “I’ve never heard of anything like this,” Dixon said. “I had to ask questions to even find out what ‘Frogger’ is.” ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
 
 One Whittier police officer has died and another officer was wounded following a Monday morning shootout with a recently paroled "known gang member" who is suspected of the fatal shooting of another man hours earlier, authorities said. 
 
 The police shooting, which also left the suspect injured, occurred around 8:30 a.m. in the area of Colima Road and Mar Vista Street in Whittier, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. 
 
 The officer killed was identified Monday afternoon as Keith Boyer, a veteran of the Whittier Police Department. 
 
 “He was the best of the best,” Whittier police Chief Jeff A. Piper said. 
 
 Piper teared up as he described Boyer, saying the two had played music together and had been friends for a quarter-century. 
 
 The other officer, who is expected to survive, is Officer Patrick Hazell, Piper said. 
 
 Boyer was killed when he and Hazell were responding to a traffic collision, sheriff's Lt. John Corina said. 
 
 The gunman had rear-ended a car and then got out of his vehicle and asked the occupants of a car he hit to help him push his vehicle out of the road and around the corner onto Mar Vista Street, a sheriff's news release stated. 
 
 When the officers got there, they first went to talk to the occupants of the vehicle that was rear-ended, who in turn pointed them to the suspect's vehicle. The officers then went around the corner to that car and made contact with the driver, asking him to get out of the car. They were going to pat him down to check for weapons when the gunfire began, Corina said. 
 
 "When they're doing that, that's when he pulls out a gun and he engages them in a gunfight. And that’s when both officers get shot, and the suspect gets shot," Corina said. 
 
 It was not known how many shots were fired during the close-range gun battle, which took place in what Corina described as a "nicer area" of Whittier. 
 
 Once other officers arrived on scene, the shooter was taken into custody. He was driving a stolen car and was a known gang member from Los Angeles with an extensive rap sheet, Corina said. 
 
 Authorities have identified the 26-year-old Hispanic suspect, but have not named him yet. 
 
 He was released from custody about a week before Monday's shooting and was on parole, Corina said, calling it an "early release." It's not yet known why he was released or what charge he had been serving time for. 
 
 The car had been stolen out of East Los Angeles, where the suspect may have been involved in another killing earlier Monday morning, Corina said. 
 
 "Unbeknownst to the Whittier police officers, when they went to pull the car over, they had a murder suspect ... in a stolen car," Corina said. 
 
 Witnesses have identified the suspect as being responsible for that other killing, which was also a shooting, Corina said. The lieutenant did not provide many details about the earlier killing, but said investigators had been told the victim was a male relative of the suspect. 
 
 The family of the victim said the suspect was the man's cousin. 
 
 The man's killing occurred about 5:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Volney Drive, the Sheriff's Department said later Monday in a brief news release. 
 
 Shortly after the police shooting, aerial video from Sky5 showed a Whittier police SUV with shattered rear and passenger windows. A sedan directly in front of the SUV had front-end damage, and a firearm was visible on top of its trunk. 
 
 Corina said it appeared the suspect had been armed with a semi-automatic handgun. 
 
 “It’s extremely tragic," Corina said. "You’ve got a couple officers who just responded to a traffic accident, and they think they’re there to help out people involved in a traffic accident. Next thing they know, they got this guy shooting at them. He shoots both of them and kills one of them.” 
 
 After identifying Boyer as the victim, Piper said he'd seen an increase in violence against officers during arrests. He referred to ballot-box propositions that he said were increasing crime. 
 
 "Everybody needs to know what these officers are dealing with on a daily basis," Piper said. "You have no idea how it's changed in that last four years. ... People don't want to follow rules. People don't care about other people. ... This is a senseless, senseless tragedy that did not need to be." 
 
 Sheriff Jim McDonnell spoke alongside Piper, also remarking on early release and rehabilitation programs. 
 
 "We're putting people back on the street that aren't ready to be back on the street," McDonnell said. 
 
 Speaking at a news conference shortly before 2 p.m., Corina told reporters the injured officer was in stable condition. The suspect, he added, was in the intensive care unit; video from the scene showed him conscious and handcuffed. while being placed into an ambulance. 
 
 In the afternoon, hundreds of law enforcement officers accompanied the Boyer's body in a procession from UC Irvine Medical Center to the Orange County coroner’s office. After a van holding the officer’s remains arrived at its destination, fellow officers lined up and saluted the flag-draped casket as it was wheeled inside. 
 
 Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Those who would like provide a tip anonymously are asked to contact Crime Stoppers by dialing 800-222-8477, or by visiting the website lacrimestoppers.org. 
 
 KTLA's Jennifer Thang contributed to this story. 
 
 Correction: An earlier version of this article included an incorrect spelling for Patrick Hazell's last name. The post has been updated. 
 
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– In a case of life imitating Seinfeld, a 23-year-old guy in South Carolina thought it would be a great idea to play a real-life version of Frogger—and got hit by an SUV for his trouble. The man was talking about the video game with friends—it involves navigating frogs across a busy road—before shouting “go” and running into traffic Monday night, the AP reports. He was hospitalized, but was set to be released yesterday; the driver will likely not be charged. The police chief, not surprisingly, suspects alcohol may have been involved. “I’ve never heard of anything like this,” he tells the Independent Mail. “I had to ask questions to even find out what Frogger is.”