LONG BEACH COPS SHOT, BADLY HURT WITNESSES SAY ATTACK TOTALLY UNPROVOKED.Byline: TRACY MANZER and GREG MELLEN Staff Writers LONG BEACH -- A rookie police officer was shot four times in the throat and his training partner was shot in the head in a Friday afternoon gunbattle following a traffic stop on a bustling bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. downtown street, authorities said. Both officers, whose names were not released, were in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. ``They're putting up a good fight,'' Long Beach Police Chief Anthony Batts said. The shooting occurred about 1:20 p.m. on Long Beach Boulevard The following roads are named Beach Boulevard:
v. teemed, teem·ing, teems v.intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. with holiday shoppers. The officers pulled over an SUV for an unknown traffic violation, Batts said. The suspect got out of the SUV and opened fire. The officers fired back, but the gunman got away. About 4 p.m., an alert was issued for a white 1998 Nissan Pathfinder For the model marketed as Nissan Terrano II in Europe, see . The Nissan Pathfinder and Terrano were originally compact SUVs and they are now mid-size SUVs. with the license plate 4AVN AVN Aviation AVN Avenue AVN Adult Video News AVN Avascular Necrosis AVN Atrioventricular Node AVN Aviation Model (weather forecast model, now Global Forecast System) AVN Air Vanuatu (ICAO code) 056 believed to be involved in the shooting. Police described the suspect as a male Hispanic or Filipino in his late 20s or early 30s, 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 9 and 210-230 pounds with short hair or a shaved shave v. shaved, shaved or shav·en , shav·ing, shaves v.tr. 1. a. To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver: head and tattoos on both arms. Ervin Bach, who was cutting a customer's hair at Fantastic Sam's on Long Beach Boulevard when the gunfight erupted, said he saw the shooter fire at the officers without warning. ``These guys didn't have a chance,'' Bach said as he gazed across the street at an empty police cruiser cruiser, large, fast, moderately armed warship, intermediate in type between the aircraft carrier and the destroyer. During World War II, battle cruisers operated as small battleships, combining in one vessel maximum qualities of gun caliber, armor protection, and with a half-dozen bullet holes in the windshield. Police shut down Long Beach Boulevard at Sixth Street and Broadway. They also closed streets leading to the hospital's emergency room entrance of the hospital, where dozens of police and fire vehicles lined the roads. The mother of the rookie officer gasped and sobbed as she rushed toward the emergency room, one hand clasped to her chest. ``Oh, my God, oh, my God,'' she cried. ``He's been shot, oh, my God.'' tracy.manzer(at)presstelegram.com (562) 499-1261 |
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