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The passenger side door opens, presumably by one of the injured deputies who is trying to get out, several seconds before the video ends. The person then raises his/her right arm and fires several times very quickly at close range, and takes off running. In the disturbing video you can see someone clad in a dark shirt over a white shirt, and dark shorts walk rapidly up to the front passenger window of the LASD patrol car, which is parked at the Metro station. The LASD has posted a surveillance video on Twitter that shows the suspected shooter firing on the deputies. The shooter reportedly walked up to their vehicle and fired multiple times through the window, then ran off and vanished. (TSB is the bureau that is tasked with providing policing services to Metro buses, trains, and the like, throughout Los Angeles County.) The two critically injured deputies are members of the department’s Transit Services Bureau, not patrol deputies. and Compton Blvd., which is not far from the Compton Sheriff’s Station.
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The shooting occurred at the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Ave. The male deputy, who is 24-years old, also has his family and his girlfriend with him at the hospital, and was able to be questioned by investigators. He described one of the injured deputies as a 31-year-old mother of a six-year-old boy. Her husband was at the hospital with her, said the sheriff. We he took the mic, the sheriff said the deputies were out of surgery. More than a dozen homicide detectives were sent immediately to the scene of the shooting, according to Homicide Captain Kent Wegener who, together with Sheriff Villanueva, spoke at a 10 p.m. The suspect who shot the deputies was - and is still - at large. First a sheriff’s department spokesperson said each of the deputies was shot multiple times.Īs of 8:22 p.m., both were undergoing surgery, and Sheriff Alex Villanueva was present at the hospital, at St. Saturday night, however, the facts of the ambush shooting trickled in slowly. the two deputies were still in critical condition.
Sheriff deputies ambushed update#
We will update this thread with information as it becomes available.Īs of Sunday 6 p.m. They are both still fighting for their lives, so please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Moments ago, 2 of our Sheriff Deputies were shot in Compton and were transported to a local hospital. tweet by they were “fighting for their lives.” The deputies were both struck multiple times in various parts of their bodies, and transported to a local hospital where, according to a 7:51 p.m. At around 7 p.m., on Saturday night, two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies, one male and one female, were shot while sitting in their patrol vehicle in Compton, in what appeared from the beginning to be a deliberate ambush.