Police Shoot Man in Legs in Scuffle
Inglewood police, looking for a man involved in a family dispute on Christmas Day, shot a 36-year-old Venice man in the legs after he allegedly pulled a gun on the officers as they tried to detain him, police said.
Officers later discovered that the injured man, Herman Dolan Cole, was not the man they were looking for. Cole, in stable condition Wednesday at the jail ward of County-USC Medical Center, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, Sgt. Harold Moret said.
Moret said the incident began when two officers were called to a home in the 700 block of North Market Street about 6:15 p.m. to investigate a domestic dispute. When they arrived, the man they wanted to question was gone.
The officers searched the neighborhood and found a man matching the suspect’s description in the 900 block of Centinela Avenue. When they tried to detain him, the man allegedly pulled a 9-millimeter handgun from his waistband. One of the officers fired three shots, striking the man twice in the legs.
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