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Mar 14, 2008 7:19 am US/Pacific
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1 Dead, 1 Injured After 2 Shootings In Wilmington
WILMINGTON
A gunman was hospitalized in critical condition on Friday following an officer-involved shooting in Wilmington. This shooting took place a mere thirty yards from where police fatally wounded another man during a gunbattle some three hours earlier, authorities said.
No officers were hurt in either shooting, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.
Several rounds of gunfire rang out around 11:40 p.m. Thursday just one
block east of East L Street and Watson Avenue, the location where LAPD officers were investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred around 9 p.m., according to police.
The gunman, whose name was not released, was wounded and was
hospitalized in critical condition, the LAPD reported. Other reports noted that the man is a 48-year-old grandfather who was recently released from a hospital after treatment for depression.
LAPD Lt. Ruben De La Torre told reporters that the shooting occurred 30 yards from the site of the first incident. Authorities did not immediately say what prompted it.
Following that shooting, officers surrounded a home on East L Street and
Drumm Avenue where several people were told to exit, one at a time, with their hands on their head, according to camera crews.
Police continued searching for evidence in and nearby the evacuated home several hours after the shooting, it was reported.
In the first shooting, which occurred around 9 p.m. Thursday, a gunman
on a bicycle exchanged gunfire with two LAPD anti-gang unit officers, De La Torre said.
Two officers from the LAPD's South Bureau Gang Detail were driving east
on L Street and approaching Watson Avenue in a patrol car when they spotted a male on a bicycle with "some minor bicycle equipment violations," De La Torre said.
When the officers stopped the bicyclist to investigate, the cyclist drew a handgun and "fired a couple of rounds, which resulted in an OIS," De La Torre said.
The wounded gunman, whose name was not immediately released, was taken to a hospital, where he died, De La Torre said.
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