BRIEFLY : 3 ACCUSED OF FIRING GUNSHOTS AT POLICE.Three gang suspects, including a juvenile, were in jail Sunday after they shot at police officers and led them on a 27-mile pursuit from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Norwalk, officials said. The shooting occurred at 12:45 a.m. at Concord Street near Pico Boulevard Pico Boulevard is a major Los Angeles street that runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica to Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. . Police Sgt. Rick Faulkner of the Hollenbeck station said officers, who were patrolling in the area because of a nearby gang party, heard gunshots and saw the suspects' car leaving the area. The officers were not hit, he said. The pursuit took 30 minutes before the three suspects were apprehended at Pioneer Boulevard and the Gardena Freeway The Gardena Freeway is a short freeway in southern Los Angeles County, California. It is the westernmost freeway portion of California State Route 91. It begins just west of the Harbor Freeway at the intersection with Vermont Avenue in the eastern edge of the city of Gardena, , the sergeant said. Police said they recovered a handgun from the suspects' car. - City News Service 2 deputies injured when patrol car hit INGLEWOOD - Two sheriff's deputies were injured when a drunk-driving suspect ran a red light in an auto that hit a patrol car early Sunday, a deputy said. The crash happened about 5:15 a.m. at Hawthorne and Century boulevards, said Deputy Cruz Solis. Solis said the suspect, Ajayi Anquette, 24, of the Lennox area, was driving west at about 60 mph on Century Boulevard before her car hit the patrol car broadside. Rescue workers had to pry apart the wreckage to free one of the deputies. Both deputies were taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located within the city of Torrance, California, USA. The hospital was founded in 1946, and is funded by Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA serves as the Level I Trauma Center for the South Bay area. , where they were listed in good condition, said Solis. - City News Service Man stabs woman, jumps off overpass A 32-year-old man stabbed and seriously wounded A casualty whose injuries or illness are of such severity that the patient is rendered unable to walk or sit, thereby requiring a litter for movement and evacuation. See also evacuation; litter; patient. his ex-girlfriend at her home Sunday, then went out and jumped to his death from a freeway overpass, police said. The man stabbed the woman about 8:45 a.m. after the two quarreled in her home in the Glassell Park area, said Los Angeles police Officer Eduardo Runes. A family member came to the woman's aid and was able to get the man out of the home, Runes said. The woman was in listed in serious but stable condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (also known as County USC) is an 800-bed teaching hospital located in East Los Angeles in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. . - City News Service Burned man says attacker used gas A homeless man who said someone poured gasoline on him suffered second-degree burns second-degree burn n. A burn that blisters the skin and is more severe than a first-degree burn. second-degree burn See Burn. to more than one-third of his body and was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday, authorities said. Firefighters were called about 11:30 p.m. Saturday to San Pedro where they saw the 53-year-old man with his lower body burned, said city Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The transient, whose name was withheld, said someone poured on the gasoline and set him ablaze, Humphrey said. A resident heard the man's screams and doused the flames with water. Humphrey said the man had burns on both legs, his genitals gen·i·tals pl.n. Genitalia. and his nostrils. He was taken to San Pedro Peninsula Hospital. - City News Service Flooded cable fails phone customers Crews worked Sunday to restore telephone service to several hundred Pacific Bell customers in West Los Angeles
The trouble started Saturday when a telephone cable got wet after rain flooded a manhole, said Pac-Bell spokesman Steve Getzug. Getzug said crews worked through the night. ``Essentially the work involves drying out the cable,'' he said, adding that some of the affected customers still had limited telephone service. - City News Service |
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