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Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer

VALLEY VILLAGE - Police said Monday that they have recovered a surveillance videotape recording of an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer involved in a weekend gunbattle with masked gunmen who tried to rob a bar.

Shots were fired about 11:15 p.m. Saturday as three armed and masked men ordered the patrons of the bar in the 12500 block of Magnolia Boulevard to lie on the floor.

Mehrdad Fard, 33, a gang officer in the LAPD's Devonshire Division, shot at the masked men, who fled. No customers were injured. It was not known whether any of the attempted robbers was injured.

Detectives with the LAPD Robbery Homicide Division's officer-involved shooting team were probing the incident.

Fard has been with the LAPD for five years, officials said.