Downtown L.A. — Police shot a suspect early this morning during a confrontation in downtown Los Angeles and an investigation is underway.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division conducted a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle at 3:31 a.m. Friday at Eighth Street and Gladys Avenue with two suspects inside the vehicle. At some point, police confronted one of the two suspects and the officers shot them, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.
Police arrested one suspect at the scene and the wounded suspect was taken to a hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics in an unknown condition, the LAPD spokesman said.
No officers were injured during the shooting. Eighth and Ninth streets at Gladys were closed while police conducted their investigation of the shooting.
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