Off-Duty Officer Shot, Fires at Fleeing Suspects

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer who was fired on after a near-collision with another car shot at two gun-wielding youths in that car, wounding one, authorities said Thursday.

Officer Oscar Winslow, 29, fired eight shots at the car, hitting a 16-year-old in the arm and hip. No one else in the car, including a man, another youth, two women and a 4-year-old boy, were hit.

Winslow then chased the car when it sped off, said LAPD spokesman Don Lawrence. Winslow fired two more rounds at the car when it stopped at an intersection and the other youth allegedly got out of the back seat with a handgun, Lawrence said.

The second barrage of shots sent the suspects fleeing again, according to Lawrence, but their car later struck a utility pole at Westmoreland and 9th Street. Winslow held all six occupants of the car at gunpoint until reinforcements arrived, Lawrence said. Marco Silva, 20, and the two teens were held on attempted murder charges.