CONSULATE WORKER BRIEFLY HELD HOSTAGE SUSPECT CRITICALLY WOUNDED; EMPLOYEE OK.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer A 19-year-old San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. gunman demanding media attention took a pregnant notary notary or notary public Public officer who certifies and attests to the authenticity of writings (e.g., deeds) and takes affidavits, depositions, and protests of negotiable instruments. clerk hostage at the Mexican Consulate on Tuesday before being shot in the head by police, officials said. Responding to a report about a kidnapping in progress, police confronted the man outside the busy consulate in Los Angeles' Westlake neighborhood around 8:30 a.m. Television footage showed the man holding the clerk in front of him with his left arm around her neck as he walked away from the downtown building. A shot could be heard and the man then fell backward to the ground. The incident set off a citywide tactical alert, with Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . SWAT teams First developed in the 1960s by local law enforcement agencies, Special Weapons and Tactics units, or SWAT teams, have become common in police departments throughout the United States. surrounding the consulate fearing more gunmen were holding other hostages inside. The gunman, who was not identified, was listed in critical but stable condition at County-USC Medical Center. Police said the man, who spoke in Spanish, was from the Valley and was possibly a foreign national. ``The information that we have is that his demands were to the effect 'Call 911. I want the media here.' Whatever his interests were in his having the media respond to the consulate, we just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. at this time,'' said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Chief William Bratton. ``We have no indication or information that this has any relation to a terrorist act.'' Police said the gunman did not know the hostage. At the time of the shooting the man, who appeared to be holding a handgun to her back, had a handmade sign attached to his chest. A still photograph of the gunman aired by KCAL kcal kilocalorie. kcal abbr. kilocalorie kcal kilocalorie. (Channel 9) showed a portion of the sign written in English that read ``I LIE THEREFORE I EXIST. G.O.P. & FANS.'' ``We are comfortable in telling you that what was written on that sign does not shed any additional light on what his purpose was today or what his motive was,'' said John Miller, LAPD's civilian homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States chief. ``It's unclear how the armed man was able to pass through a guard and a bank of metal detectors that visitors must go through before entering the building.'' About two hundred people were believed to be inside the consulate when the man abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point the woman from her cubicle in a public area of the fourth-floor office, said Reuben Beltran, Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. The woman, who worked for the consul general for several years, was unharmed though shaken, he said. Police said the gunman had verbally threatened her life. By the time the ordeal ended, more than 40 people remained in the building before authorities did a floor-by-floor search, clearing the building by noon. Officials, who received initial reports of four suspects with numerous hostages, deployed more than 150 officers including SWAT teams, a bomb squad unit and the FBI. For several hours after the shooting officers cordoned off several blocks around the building in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. Daily News wire services contributed to this report. Rachel Uranga, (818) 713-3741 rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: SWAT officers surround the Mexican Consulate on Tuesday after a man who took a pregnant woman hostage was shot. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer Map: HOSTAGE STANDOFF Gregg Miller/Staff Artist |
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