{"id":459179,"date":"2010-03-22T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f80\/officer-involved-shooting-mid-city-41210\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:42:52","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-in-mid-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459179","title":{"rendered":"Officer Involved Shooting in Mid City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.22.10 09:31 AM<br \/>\n<b><i>Los Angeles:<\/i><\/b>&#0160; Just after midnight this morning on-duty  Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers became involved in a fatal  shooting near Vermont Avenue and James M. Wood Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p> On&#0160; March 20, 2010, at about 12:03 a.m. Olympic Area gang enforcement  officers were on patrol in a marked black and white patrol vehicle  southbound on Vermont Avenue passing James M. Wood Boulevard.&#0160; Both  officers heard a loud noise and negotiated a turn to investigate.<\/p>\n<p> While driving northbound on Vermont Avenue, the officers observed a man  walking northbound on the east sidewalk of Vermont Avenue, north of  James M. Wood Boulevard.&#0160; The officers noted that the man was  suspiciously looking around and manipulating something in his waistband  area.&#0160; When the officers attempted to conduct an investigative stop, the  man advanced rapidly toward the officers while appearing to remove  something from his front waistband area.&#0160; An officer involved shooting  occurred.<\/p>\n<p> The officers requested emergency medical assistance for the man who was  suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.&#0160; Los Angeles Fire Department  paramedics responded and pronounced the suspect dead.<\/p>\n<p> No weapon was recovered.&#0160; The deceased man has been identified as  27-year-old area resident Steven Eugene Washington.&#0160; Mr. Washington\u0092s  family was notified of his death early this morning.&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;<\/p>\n<p> The involved officers are Police Officer Allan Corrales, 6 years,11  months with the Department and Police Officer George Diego, 7 years, 10  months with the Department.<\/p>\n<p> The Los Angeles Police Department\u0092s Force Investigation Division is  conducting the investigation. <\/p>\n<p> Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call Force  Investigation Division at 213-486-5230.&#0160; During non-business hours or on  weekends, calls may be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7.&#0160; Anyone wishing to  remain anonymous may call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS  (800-222-8477).&#0160; Tipsters may also contact Crimestoppers by texting to  phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) using a cell phone.  All text messages should begin with the letters \u0093LAPD.\u0094&#0160; Tipsters can  also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on &quot;webtips&quot; and follow the prompts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapdblog.typepad.com\/lapd_blog\/2010\/03\/officer-involved-shooting-in-mid-city.html\" >LAPD News and Information &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.22.10 09:31 AM Los Angeles:&#0160; Just after midnight this morning on-duty Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers became involved in a fatal shooting near Vermont Avenue and James M. Wood Boulevard. On&#0160; March 20, 2010, at about 12:03 a.m. Olympic Area gang enforcement officers were on patrol in a marked black and white patrol vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}