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Long Beach officer shoots off-duty LAPD officer, official says
Long Beach police were responding to a call of an armed man walking on Mira Mar Avenue. The LAPD officer was in critical but stable condition.
By Joel Rubin and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
9:54 AM PDT, July 30, 2008
An armed man who was shot by a Long Beach police officer this morning on Mira Mar Avenue was an off-duty officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, a high-ranking LAPD official with knowledge of the investigation confirmed.
"It is a very unfortunate set of circumstances, it is one of ours," said the official, who requested anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation. "We are desperately trying to unravel what happened."
The officer was in critical but stable condition at a hospital, the official said.
Although few details were released this morning, Long Beach police said they responded to a call at 12:30 a.m. of a person with a gun walking on Mira Mar Avenue near Fourth Street.
Officers located the 27-year-old man and realized he was armed, Long Beach Police Sgt. Dina Zapalski said. It was not clear why one of the officers began shooting, she said.
Only one officer fired, wounding the man, Zapalski said. She did not know how many times the Long Beach officer fired or where the victim was wounded.
Long Beach police were responding to a call of an armed man walking on Mira Mar Avenue. The LAPD officer was in critical but stable condition.
By Joel Rubin and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
9:54 AM PDT, July 30, 2008
An armed man who was shot by a Long Beach police officer this morning on Mira Mar Avenue was an off-duty officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, a high-ranking LAPD official with knowledge of the investigation confirmed.
"It is a very unfortunate set of circumstances, it is one of ours," said the official, who requested anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation. "We are desperately trying to unravel what happened."
The officer was in critical but stable condition at a hospital, the official said.
Although few details were released this morning, Long Beach police said they responded to a call at 12:30 a.m. of a person with a gun walking on Mira Mar Avenue near Fourth Street.
Officers located the 27-year-old man and realized he was armed, Long Beach Police Sgt. Dina Zapalski said. It was not clear why one of the officers began shooting, she said.
Only one officer fired, wounding the man, Zapalski said. She did not know how many times the Long Beach officer fired or where the victim was wounded.
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