L.A. Now Live: Discuss latest on LAPD ambush, Mid-City manhunt
Times crime reporter Andrew Blankstein will join reporter Joseph Serna at 9 a.m. for an L.A. Now Live discussion about the latest developments in the search for suspects who opened fire on two LAPD detectives in an ambush early Tuesday morning.
The officers -- veteran burglary detectives working undercover -- were treated at a hospital and released and are helping to try to identify the suspects.
PHOTOS: Two LAPD detectives shot in ambush
The detectives were attacked from behind between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. at the Wilshire substation at 4861 W. Venice Blvd. and fired at multiple times, shattering their car windows, before the shooter or shooters ran off, LAPD sources told The Times.
Police initially issued a tactical alert but have since called it off.
Multiple individuals people have been detained in a dragnet stretching from San Vicente to Washington boulevards and Rimpau to Redondo boulevards.
Roads in the area were jammed during the morning commute as four helicopters buzzed overhead.
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