Two LAPD officers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting in South Los Angeles Friday evening, authorities said.
Officers responded around 9 p.m. Friday to a reported robbery in the 9200 block of Central Avenue in the LAPD’s Southeast Division, Los Angeles Police Officer Drake Madison said.
The LAPD said the officers fired their weapons during a confrontation with an armed suspect. It is unclear whether the officers were hit directly by gunfire or whether their injuries were caused by shrapnel, police said, although a police source told The Times that one of the officers suffered a scratch.
The officers were taken to the hospital but their injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said. The two police officers were conscious and talking when they arrived at the hospital, according to a police source.
An investigation into the robbery and shooting is ongoing, authorities said. Police had made no arrests shortly before 11 p.m. Friday.
