Three Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were shot and wounded Wednesday in LA’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
ABC 7 reported “the incident began unfolding Wednesday afternoon near Mission and Broadway.” KTLA noted that the officers were shot “some time after 6 p.m.”
Reuters observed the shooting suspect barricaded himself “inside a residential garage.”
The condition of the wounded officers is unknown.
California has universal background checks, a ten-day waiting period for gun purchases, a red flag law, an “assault weapons” ban, a limit on the number of guns law-abiding citizens can buy each month, gun registration requirements, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, a ban on campus carry for self-defense, and a background check requirement for ammunition purchases, among other controls.
UPDATE: The suspect who allegedly shot and wounded the three LAPD officers on Wednesday is dead.
The suspect barricaded himself in a garage after the shooting, and Reuters indicated he was unresponsive when SWAT personnel reached him.
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