LOS ANGELES : LAPD Officer Accidentally Shot by Fellow Detective
A Los Angeles police officer was accidentally shot Thursday by a fellow officer while he and four other officers were serving an arrest warrant on a 12-year-old murder suspect at a city-owned housing project near Chinatown, police said.
Detective Mike Vaughn, 46, was in “good shape” at County-USC Medical Center after being shot in his upper shoulder, said Lt. William Hall, head of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Officer-Involved Shooting Investigative Team.
The shooting occurred about 7:20 a.m. at the William Meade housing project in the 300 block of East Bloom Street. Vaughn--who wore a bulletproof vest under plainclothes--was rounding a corner in a third-floor stairwell, Hall said. Detective Reuben Holguin, 35, was standing a flight below and saw the gun as Vaughn emerged around the corner. Holguin yelled “Stop! Police.” Vaughn apparently did not hear the order, Hall said, and “fearing for his life,” Holguin unloaded two rounds from his revolver, wounding Vaughn.
Police arrested the boy and turned him over to officers from the Hollenbeck Division, who took him to East Lake Juvenile Hall.
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