Off-duty LAPD officer shot dead during a robbery
Authorities said Tuesday a Los Angeles police officer was killed in a shootout with several attackers approaching him in a neighborhood during a robbery.
Fernando Arroyos, 27, was shot around 9:15 p.m. Monday in an unincorporated part of the southern Los Angeles county.
Arroyos was shopping for his first home with his girlfriend when a black pickup truck with 3 men inside approached the victim and some of the suspects got out, got into an argument and 2 of them pulled out a gun, authorities said.
“The officer yelled at his girlfriend to leave, run away and get back in the car,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore said. “The shot was shot. The officer shot back. The officer was shot.”
A statement from the Sheriff’s Department said that, upon reaching the county sheriff’s deputies, Arroyos was bleeding in an alleyway and he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
His girlfriend was not injured.
Authorities told KNBC-TV the pickup drove away but three men and two women were detained for questioning, including a man found on the street with gunshot wounds. foot gun.
Arroyos is a three-year veteran of the division assigned to the Olympic division just west of downtown Los Angeles.
“He had a promising future, a bright future, which was cruelly robbed after a street robbery,” the sheriff said.
“My heart is broken, the heart of our city is broken, and certainly the hearts of our LAPD family bleed,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti.
“This man died a hero trying to protect himself and his girlfriend,” the mayor said.
The officer’s body was transported to the coroner’s office in a procession.
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