COP KILLS COP : OFF-DUTY LAPD OFFICER SHOT IN STUDIO CITY.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken and Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writers An off-duty 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 . officer from the Pacific
Division was shot and killed Tuesday following a verbal dispute with an
on-duty undercover LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officer, said Chief Willie L. Williams Willie L. Williams (born 1 October, 1943) was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. . The two officers were driving south on Cahuenga Boulevard in Studio City when a verbal confrontation ensued between the two, Williams said. The off-duty officer, who sources identified as seven-year LAPD veteran Kevin Gaines, 30, of Gardena, apparently pointed his handgun out the window of his Mitsubishi Montero mon·te·ro n. pl. mon·te·ros A hunter's cap with side flaps. [Spanish, hunter, from monte, mountain, from Latin m at the plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. narcotics officer, who then fired two shots, mortally wounding Gaines. Gaines was rushed to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a hospital in Burbank, California, USA. The hospital has 455 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. It's adress is: 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505. in Burbank, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Williams said he did not know what led to the dispute, but that it appeared that the officers may have come upon each other by chance. ``We 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. what has occurred. No one has any idea,'' Williams said. ``I'm here because of the seriousness of it.'' Police refused to release the name of the officer who shot the patrolman. The 4 p.m. incident occurred in the 3700 block of Cahuenga Boulevard, where the narcotics officer and his colleagues from the West Bureau Narcotics unit had been conducting an undercover operation. After the confrontation at Cahuenga and Regal Place, the fatally injured officer pulled into a nearby Arco service station, followed by the officer who had fired his weapon. Officers took the wounded man out of his car and summoned paramedics. ``I was at the cash register, looked outside, saw one man, standing, point at the car,'' said Grant Kazanchyan, a station cashier. ``I saw him pointing a gun at the car.'' Officers at the scene were not immediately aware that a fellow policeman had been shot. The chief said the LAPD's Behavioral Science Services unit was summoned to assist officers in coping with the tragedy. Police Commission President Ray Fisher was summoned to the scene but did not make any comment about the shooting. CAPTION(S): map Map: Officer shot and killed |
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