Following a traffic stop, a shootout took place between Whittier police and a man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in Santa Fe Springs.
A shootout with a murder suspect in Whittier on Monday ended with a police office struck twice in the lower extremities and the gunman shot in the hand, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
A male officer suffered two gunshot wounds to his lower extremities, and the suspect was shot once in the hand, according to sheriff’s investigators. A police dog was brought in, and officers used a less-lethal 40mm baton round on Gonzalez before he was taken into custody, sheriff’s officials said.
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