One Baldwin Park police officer was killed and another wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, three sources told The Times.
Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the shooting in Baldwin Park located near 4200 Filhurst Ave., said California Highway Patrol spokesperson Megan Curtiss.
One suspect had been taken into custody, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Police cars from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department and West Covina and El Monte police departments were stationed in the neighborhood.
At the hospital, news helicopters were whirling above as police cruisers from various law enforcement agencies rolled into the hospital’s emergency entrance used by ambulances.
Three sources told The Times that a shooting Saturday night left one Baldwin Park police officer dead and another injured.
The shooting in Baldwin Park, close to 4200 Filhurst Ave, was being responded to by several law enforcement agencies. spokesperson Megan Curtiss of the California Highway Patrol stated.
It was announced by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that one suspect had been arrested.
At 7:16 p.m., eleven shots were heard. M. according to video footage that The Times examined, on Palm Avenue.
The homeowner who refused to provide his name but whose Ring camera caught the shooting claimed he mistook the gunshots for fireworks. Police cars were swarming the street when he finally looked outside.
He said, standing in his front yard a few feet from the police tape that delineated the next block, that the single-family home neighborhood is typically “pretty calm.”.
According to him, he had lived on Palm Avenue for nine years without any shootings until Saturday.
The Times also examined another video that showed six more shots fired at 7:26 p.m. A. as helicopters flew in circles over the area of Palm and Filhurst Avenue.
By 9 p.m. A. Several law enforcement agencies had swarmed into the neighborhood on Saturday night and were contacting residents one by one. In the area were police vehicles from the West Covina and El Monte police departments, as well as the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department.
The Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center reported that two officers who were shot were taken to the hospital in critical condition, one by air and one by ground. 1. Department of County Fire.
As police cruisers from different law enforcement agencies rolled into the hospital’s emergency entrance, which is used by ambulances, news helicopters were flying overhead.
Several officers stood outside nearby. A distressed couple had been escorted through the same parking lot earlier in the evening by a sheriff deputy. After an hour, the same pair left. They refused to comment and claimed to be members of one of the officers’ families.
