LAPD officer shot in the Exposition Park area
LAPD officer shot in the Exposition Park area
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Police Department gang enforcement officer was wounded Saturday in a shooting while he patrolled the Exposition Park area.
The shooting occurred at 3:47 p.m. Saturday at 39th Place and Western Avenue, at or near Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Charles Miller told City News Service.
The officer and his partner were assigned to gang enforcement and spotted a suspect they wanted to question but he ran away, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters outside Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center.
The officers chased the fleeing suspect and he fired a gun at them, wounding one officer, McDonnell said. He was hospitalized and listed in serious but stable condition, McDonnell said. The wounds were not believed life-threatening.
It was unclear whether he was transported in a patrol vehicle or ambulance but an ambulance was observed at the scene.
The other gang enforcement officer returned fire, but the gunman was not hit, the chief said. He was arrested soon after, however. His name was not immediately released.
A gun was recovered at the scene, McDonnell said.
The shooting was under investigation with a large crime scene marked in the area.
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