Bell police searching for accomplice in car chase that led to fatal shooting

Authorities are searching for the alleged accomplice of a man police shot and killed early this morning after a car chase that ended in South Gate.

Bell police were conducting a traffic stop on a white vehicle occupied by two males shortly after midnight when the suspects began firing at the officers, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the incident.

The car drove off and police pursued the car four miles into South Gate, where the vehicle crashed into a concrete wall at Seville Avenue and Santa Ana Street. The suspects exited the vehicle and one of the men began firing at Bell officers, police said.

One of the suspect's rounds struck the hood of a Bell police vehicle and officers returned fire, police said.

One suspect began running southbound on Commercial Place. A Bell police sergeant and another officer began shooting and the suspect was struck several times in the upper torso.

County paramedics responded and the man was pronounced dead at the scene. A weapon was recovered.

The other man escaped, officials said. No officers were injured.
 
-- My-Thuan Tran

Photo: Investigators at the scene of a shooting in South Gate, where a police pursuit ended early Thursday with a car crash and exchange of gunfire. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

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Learn more about more than 100 fatal officer-involved shootings in L.A. County since January 2007 on The Times' interactive Homicide Report, which documents all deaths determined by the county coroner to be at the hand of another person.

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Comments

[syscom3]

Good thing only the sociopath was killed.

[KK]

Good job. This is expected when you start shooting at cop. Good guys don't shoot at the police.

[AFRICA]

Hope they find the accomplice.

[bryce the beast]

hey ryan this is a good story glad they caught him.

[ryan awesome]

hey bryce glad they caught the bad guy

[Just Say'n]

Great Job! Bell PD, I'm very sure if these guys were driving around with guns they were most likily planing to use them on someone, so someone's life was saved by taking out one of these up to no good gangsters, and I hope and pray they get the accomplice off the streets, and into a prison for the rest of his life for the death of his friend, and atempted murder on a police officer as well, scum-bags!!

[Ron]

The outcome of this came out good, suspect was put down and no police officers were hurt! That show how good of a police departmet Bell is always getting their target! Keep it up Bell P.D

[Joseph W. Walden Jr.]

Well that sounds all nice and sweet but the fact is cops shoot and kill just as many unarmed civilians as they do bad guys.
Here where I live I recall they shot a subdued suspect wearing handcuffs while he lay prone after being arrested,
didnt mean anything to me until I realized I knew the person.
And the arresting officers made no effort to get the man medical care after they shot him so the scene became a public execution.
They got it right this time but becareful hom much you praise them, it could be your sibling, son, daughter, or spouse they shot mistaking a cell phone for a firearm.

[Kevin]

Joseph - I highly doubt that it was as cut and dry as "they shot a subdued suspect wearing handcuffs while he lay prone after being arrested"

Here is an idea, when the cops have their weapons drawn and are commanding you to freeze and get to the ground - DO IT. Don't reach for a cell phone, a pager, or whatever else you feel you must get right then - JUST GET YOUR BUTT ON THE GROUND.

If you don't - you might get shot.

[RightSaidFred]

Hey Joseph Waldren, I was also at that incident. The unarmed guy had a gun and shot ten kids just before the cops shot him. The cops then valiantly used CPR on him because it was the "right thing to do." The cops wept when they couldn't save him.

See I can tell lies on the Internet too.

[Hopeful]

"Well that sounds all nice and sweet but the fact is cops shoot and kill just as many unarmed civilians as they do bad guys." Posted by: Joseph W. Walden Jr.

Hey Joseph, can you please direct me to where you found this "fact?" Because I'm pretty sure you made it up and can't back it up.