A shooting was reported Monday night inside the Mid-City building that houses the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division and West Traffic Bureau, leaving one officer with injuries and other victims reportedly wounded, police said. READ STORY
Officer Ricky Brown puts up red tape at the entrance to an LAPD station in Mid-City where an officer was shot Monday night in the lobby. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Police Officer Len Lai stands on yellow tape as an emergency response truck leaves an LAPD station in Mid-City L.A. where an officer was shot Monday night. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Police Officer Ricky Brown stands in front of an LAPD station in Mid-City where an officer was shot in the lobby Monday night. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Advertisement
A uniform with bullet holes that belonged to an officer who was shot in the lobby of a station on Venice Boulevard. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck speaks to the media about the condition of the injured officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday night. “He is in great spirits,” Beck said. He described the officer as a “remarkable young man” who was “very, very lucky.” (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
An ambulance, rear, that carried one of the shooting victims sits outside the emergency entrance to Cedars-Sinai Hospital on Monday. A squad car that accompanied the ambulance is in the foreground. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
An LAPD officer stands guard at La Brea Avenue and Venice Boulevard, about a block from the station where the shooting occurred. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Advertisement
The shooting was reported about 8:30 p.m. The suspect was critically wounded. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Investigators are trying to piece together how the violence unfolded, including how the gunman got to the station. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)