Killing of 2 El Monte police officers in shooting stuns city: ‘They were good men’
LOS ANGELES — Authorities are trying to piece together the chain of events that left two El Monte police officers fatally shot after responding to a call at a local motel. The incident occurred at the Siesta Inn near Central and Garvey avenues. At a news conference Tuesday night, Capt. Andrew Meyer, who leads the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau, confirmed that ...
LOS ANGELES — Authorities are trying to piece together the chain of events that left two El Monte police officers fatally shot after responding to a call at a local motel.
The incident occurred at the Siesta Inn near Central and Garvey avenues.
At a news conference Tuesday night, Capt. Andrew Meyer, who leads the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau, confirmed that officers responded to a call for a possible stabbing at a motel, that they confronted the suspect in a motel room and fired their weapons, and that the suspect ran out of the room and into a parking lot, where the officers fired again.
Three officers opened fire during the encounter, a
