Gunman suspected of shooting officers holed up in South L.A. home
A gunman suspected of wounding two officers in an intense firefight was believed to be inside the home where the gun battle erupted, law enforcement authorities said Tuesday night.
Officers swarmed the scene and surrounded the home in an unincorporated neighborhood in South Los Angeles after the gunfight broke out shortly before 7 p.m.
Clad in helmets and weilding high-powered rifles, the officers took up positions around the home in the 2200 block of East 117th Street.
The gunman was in the ceiling attic above the kitchen when a Los Angeles Police Department officer peered inside and was shot in the cheek and neck, authorities told The Times.
The officer was undergoing surgery Tuesday night. The officer was expected to survive, according to authorities. A parole-probation officer was shot in the leg and may have been treated at the scene.
At least five officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect as rounds ripped through the ceiling and floor.
The officers were part of a unit conducting a parole-probation search of the home in an area patrolled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The gun battle followed an ambush early Tuesday during which an attacker shot at two LAPD undercover detectives outside the Wilshire station in Mid-City.
That shooting sparked a day-long manhunt in which officers searched unsuccessfully for the attacker.
Authorities said the two incidents did not appear to be related but stressed that the situation was still unfolding.
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