100 Evacuated From Apartments After Reports of Gunfire
More than 100 people were forced to evacuate a Bellflower apartment complex on New Year’s Day after a man fired a shotgun and a Sheriff’s Department SWAT team surrounded the building, authorities said.
The apartment unit that the officers searched was empty, however, when the SWAT team stormed the building at 11:55 p.m. Thursday, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Deputies were called to the complex at 16231 Eucalyptus Avenue at 4:30 p.m. after reports that a man had fired a shot at another person in the complex and another through the ceiling of a unit, said Deputy Mark Bailey.
“The suspect apparently fled, but investigators did find a shotgun which they believe was used in the earlier shooting,” Bailey said.
No one was injured in the incident.
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