LOCAL : Assailant in Shooting Slays Self
California Highway Patrol officers on patrol early today witnessed a man wrestle another man to the ground and shoot him twice in the head during a fight in the parking lot of a Woodland Hills high school.
One of the CHP officers wounded the gunman, but he escaped. Shortly after the 2:50 a.m. shooting, the unidentified man was trailed from Taft High School to a nearby office building, where he shot himself to death in a restroom as Los Angeles police were preparing to move in.
The man who was wounded in the parking lot was identified as Anthony Rotella, 21, of Woodland Hills, a community services officer for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Rotella, a civilian employee who worked at the Santa Clarita Valley station, was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, where he was in critical condition after surgery.
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