Orange and Santa Ana police officers, as well as Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials, responded around 4:45 a.m., May 28, 2015, to a shooting in the 1900 block of East Rose Avenue.
Orange and Santa Ana police officers, as well as Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials, responded around 4:45 a.m., May 28, 2015, to a shooting in the 1900 block of East Rose Avenue.

Police in Orange shot and wounded an armed man Thursday at a residence, authorities said.

Officers were sent to the 1900 block of East Rose Avenue at 4:30 a.m. in response to a 911 call reporting “a man threatening people in the house with a firearm,” said Orange police Sgt. Phil McMullin.

The officers confronted the man, and he was shot, McMullin said.

The 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries described as non-life-threatening, McMullin said. No officers were injured. Police recovered a firearm at the scene, McMullin said.

Another man at the location suffered an unspecified injury and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

— City News Service

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