A wild chase, a gunbattle, then tragedy as officer's bullet kills Trader Joe's employee
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles police officers tore through traffic on Rowena Avenue on Saturday afternoon in a high-speed pursuit of an attempted murder suspect driving a Toyota Camry.
Suddenly, the back window of the Camry shattered.
"Shots fired!" the police officer at the wheel shouted to his partner as he swerved into oncoming lanes. "Broadcast."
"6A67 shots fired," she radioed. "Officer needs help."
Forty-five seconds later, the Camry veered into a utility pole in front of a Trader Joe's and the driver bolted for the entrance, firing his gun wildly from his hip, according to dashboard and body-cam footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday.
The officers had less than two seconds to react before the gunman fled into a store full of shoppers. But a
