Boy, 16, Shot by Off-Duty Police in Restaurant Lot
A 16-year-old boy was shot by two off-duty Glendale police officers working as restaurant security guards early Sunday morning after the youth fired a gun at them in the parking lot of a restaurant, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.
The teen-ager, part of a group of gang members that had been asked to leave the Rosemead Boulevard restaurant moments before the 12:55 a.m. shooting, pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his waistband and fired one shot at the officers, sheriff’s spokeswoman Angie McLaughlin said. The shot missed.
The two officers returned fire, striking the youth twice, once in the chest and once in the leg, she said.
The teen-ager, whose name was not released, was brought to the San Gabriel Valley Medical Center and was in stable condition. Police plan to seek charges of attempted murder of a police officer, she said.
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