San Diego

One man was shot and another was arrested when two San Diego narcotics officers served a search warrant at a downtown San Diego home and a man pulled a rifle on the pair, police said.

Undercover narcotics officers Felipe Arroyo and David Gomez were dispatched to the 400 block of Langley Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The two officers entered the residence and announced that they were police officers, police spokesman Bill Robinson said.

One of the two men in the home reportedly pointed a .22-caliber rifle at the officers, he said.

Arroyo, 31, fired one round from his 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, Robinson said. An unarmed man, who was partly blocking the man with the rifle, was hit in the arm.

Gomez disarmed the gunman, Jose Aguirre Roman, 23, police said. The wounded man, Jesus Antonio Bringas, 18, was taken to the San Diego Physicians & Surgeons Hospital. He was in fair condition Friday, said a hospital nursing supervisor. Bringas was not arrested. Lt. Dan Berglund of the police narcotics detail said a substance believed to be cocaine powder was found on Roman and that drug paraphernalia was also found at the residence. Roman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and possession of a controlled substance. He was being held in the County Jail, a jail spokeswoman said Friday.

Narcotics officers had purchased drugs at the residence a week earlier and obtained a warrant based on the drug buy, Robinson said.