A rookie Baltimore police officer just out of the academy was accosted and shot outside his northeast Baltimore home early Tuesday morning, police said.

Momodu Gondo was returning home around 12:30 a.m. after working a double shift when an unknown number of assailants shot him several times in the back after he got out of his car on the 5700 block of The Alameda. Gondo returned fire after a brief struggle, but it is not known whether any of the assailants were hit, police officials said. Police also do not know the motive for the shooting.