Authorities Friday were continuing to investigate a shooting that left two Los Angeles police officers injured and a patrol car damaged with bullet holes to the windshield.
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,” according to the department.
One of the officers managed to return fire.
Officers attempted to follow the suspect’s vehicle but lost sight of it 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 were searching for the suspect and vehicle, the LAPD reported.