Photos: LAPD officers kill one of two gunmen in freeway shootout

Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith looks at the damage to an LAPD BearCat, a wheeled armored personnel carrier, after an officer involved shooting that killed a man early Monday morning. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Aug. 18, 2014 8:39 AM PT

A search for two gunmen who had fired at officers during a freeway pursuit early Monday ended in South L.A. with one dead and the other captured.

LAPD investigators look for bullet casings and other evidence on the Vernon Avenue onramp to the northbound 110 Freeway early Monday, as they investigate an officer-involved shooting. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD investigators look for bullet casings and other evidence on the Vernon Avenue onramp to the northbound 110 Freeway early Monday as they investigate an officer-involved shooting that left one of two suspects dead and an officer wounded. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

An LAPD investigator looks over a weapon belonging to a suspect who was shot and killed at the end of a police pursuit early Monday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A bullet hole in an LAPD patrol car that was involved in a shootout Monday morning in South L.A. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles police officers near the end of a pursuit that left one of two gunmen dead after a freeway shootout, which forced the closure of part of the northbound 110 early Monday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A section of the northbound 110 Freeway heading into downtown was closed early Monday as Los Angeles police investigated a shooting that they said left one of two gunmen dead and an officer wounded. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A weapon lies in the street near 37th and Hill streets, where LAPD officers killed one of two gunmen in a freeway shootout. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)