SOUTH-CENTRAL : Man Killed During Gun Battle With Transit Police
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A gunman who opened fire on passing Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers was shot and killed in South-Central Los Angeles when the officers returned fire Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
An alleged companion of the gunman was later flushed out of the boiler room of a nearby apartment house by police search dogs and captured by Los Angeles Police Department officers.
The incident was unrelated to another shooting about the same time on South Central Avenue about five blocks away, said LAPD Officer Dan Cox. In what police believe was a gang-related incident, two young men were shot from a passing car and wounded, one critically and one seriously. No suspects had been captured in the shooting.
An MTA spokesman said the authority’s officers were searching for graffiti vandals when they heard shots fired in the 4100 block of Central Avenue and investigated.
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