2 Officers Injured in Shooting, Hit-Run
A police officer investigating a Boyle Heights carjacking early Sunday was shot in the hand by someone firing from a car, and a police commander responding to the shooting was injured in a hit-and-run crash, authorities said.
A shot was fired at Los Angeles Police Officer Rodolfo “Alex” Fuentes, 32, and other officers in a parking lot on Grande Vista Avenue just south of Olympic Boulevard about 2:50 a.m.
The bullet, fired from a brown sedan, hit Fuentes’ left middle finger as he was putting his cellphone into his pocket, police said.
Fuentes, of the LAPD’s Hollenbeck Division, was treated at a local hospital Sunday, officials said.
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visited the 10-year veteran at the hospital. They later urged anyone with information about the shooting to call (877) LAWFULL.
Cmdr. Louis Gray, assistant commanding officer for operations in the Central Bureau, was driving to the shooting scene when a vehicle rammed into his car at Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street, police said.
A man police identified as the driver was later arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving and hit-and-run. Gray was not seriously injured.
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