LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities Friday continue to investigate an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the injury of two Los Angeles police officers and several bullet holes to a windshield of a patrol car.
The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. Wednesday when officers initiated a routine traffic stop on a white, four-door sedan at Broadway and Rosecrans Avenue in South Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
"The suspect's vehicle initially began to accelerate away but stopped suddenly on Broadway north of Rosecrans Avenue. Before officers could exit the police vehicle, the suspect, armed with a fully automatic weapon, fired at officers without warning. An officer-involved shooting occurred when one officer returned fire," the department reported.
Officers attempted to follow the suspect's vehicle but lost sight of the vehicle in the area of 135th Street and Broadway. Both officers sustained cuts and scratches from glass fragments caused by the suspect's gunfire that struck the patrol car's windshield, with one officer receiving two graze wounds to his head.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics took the officers to a hospital for treatment and both are in stable condition, police said. It was not immediately known if the suspect was wounded in the shooting.
Police are searching for the suspect and vehicle, the LAPD reported.
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