GUNMEN ATTACK ARMORED TRUCK.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer An armored truck was ambushed Wednesday by gunmen who opened fire from a van as it chased the armored vehicle around the streets of Woodland Hills, police said. The unidentified driver for Brink's Inc. suffered facial wounds from windshield glass shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. in a barrage of bullets from shots fired from a maroon maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. Dodge van Dodge Van may refer to:
The 9:33 a.m. attack occurred as the truck was going north on Fallbrook Avenue near Burbank Boulevard. Brink's Inc. officials declined comment. Residents in the area said they heard as many as five shots and later saw the driver on the ground on the side of the truck. At least two rounds pierced the reinforced glass in the front of the truck and one round hit the rearview mirror. ``I heard five shots, it was pop, pop, crack, crack, crack,'' said Steve McKinley, who lives near where the truck came under fire. The driver was prone in the gutter, said Rose Wanes, another neighbor who emerged from her home after hearing gunfire. ``I thought he was dead, but he was talking and moving. It's terrible,'' she said of the attack. ``In this area, we've never heard of this. I've been here 16 years, what is this?'' Lt. James Razukas of the Robbery Homicide Division Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with famed executive producer Michael Mann. said the truck was going north when a van pulled in front of it. ``Someone opened fire, the truck tried to evade the van,'' Razukas said. ``They were traveling northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. , basically ambushed, when they were moving,'' Razukas said. Lt. Anthony Alba said that the chase continued around the neighborhood as the armored car attempted to escape its pursuers. ``It was several minutes - the chase was as fast as an armored truck can drive with a load in it.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Two rounds put holes in the windshield of theBrink's Inc. truck. (2) A Brink's employee examines the bloody shirt of a co-worker wounded in Wednesday's ambush (language) AMBUSH - A language for linear programming problems in a materials processing and transportation network. ["AMBUSH - An Advanced Model Builder for Linear Programming", T.R. White et al, National Petroleum Refiners Assoc Comp Conf (Nov 1971)]. . (3) LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers inspect the abandoned, burned out van left by the gunmen in a Woodland Hills alley. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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