LAUSD police officer shot near El Camino Real High School [Updated]
Police were responding to a report that a Los Angeles Unified School District police officer was wounded at a shooting near El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills.
The shooting occurred around 11:45 a.m. on the campus at Valley Circle and Burbank boulevards.
Live video footage from KTLA News showed dozens of police officers searching the area around the school and an ambulance apparently carrying the officer leaving the scene.
No more information was immediately available.
[Updated at 12:05 p.m.: The officer was being transported to Northridge Hospital Medical Center.
Los Angeles Police Department sources said the police were looking for a white man in his 40s wearing blue jeans and a bomber jacket who fled the scene through the alley. He was last seen running east on Burbank Boulevard.
The high school is on lockdown.
[Updated at 12:15 p.m.: Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jaime Moore told KCAL-TV Channel 9 the officer is fair condition. He was being treated at the Northridge hospital.
An LAUSD spokesman told KTLA News that the officer was well enough to call for help after the shooting. He said the shooting occurred just outside campus and not on the grounds of the high school.]
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-- Andrew Blankstein
Photo: Emergency workers tend to an LAUSD officer who was shot near El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills. Credit: KTLA/TV
EDITOR'S PICKS:
40 years old, probably a 11th grader.
Posted by: oldtimer | January 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Wow.... so many police cars keep passing my office in calabasas. Didnt know what had happened until i logged on here! Hope all is well for the poor officer, and hope they catch that maniac.
Posted by: Ben | January 19, 2011 at 12:21 PM
I'm in the school right now! Really want to get out to lunch though. SO HUNGRY!
Posted by: Frank Sinatra | January 19, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Thts my old School class of 07 wow I hope the students are ok
Posted by: taylor F | January 19, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Wow, it's amazing how those things keep happening all the time !
Posted by: Guy | January 19, 2011 at 12:37 PM
the police officer was wearing a bulletproofvest
Posted by: dummies | January 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Hey, LAUSD are you going to blame Gardena High School for this incident, also??? I think not.
Posted by: Where is the accountability??? | January 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Oh no! What did Sarah Palin say to cause this?
Posted by: Millionsix | January 19, 2011 at 12:42 PM
I notice that the LA Times homepage still says that the shooting was at the school, even though it's been confirmed that the shooting was not on the campus. I don't mean to suggest that a shooting near a school isn't serious, but that kind of misinformation should have been replaced as soon as its inaccuracy was confirmed! Sloppy work for latimes.com.
Posted by: Kenneth Simon | January 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
We need more guns , this is the ONLY way to be safer . Arm teachers and janitors in every school with a handgun.
Posted by: Al | January 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Too many killer kids running around. Legal age should be lowered to 12.
Posted by: Duped Tax Payer | January 19, 2011 at 12:51 PM
El Camino is going to try and blame Canoga Park High School
Posted by: Ryan | January 19, 2011 at 01:38 PM
This guy took a bullet for the kids, it could have been a lot worst, he is a hero.
Posted by: heyllo | January 19, 2011 at 01:39 PM
That's it, LAPD, lock the school down, the shooting happened outside the school, the guy ran away. We have too many cops in LA. Crime is down, not because of more police. They can't do anything but react to an event. They are, however, good at shooting unarmed drunks.(the recent occurrences in Long Beach and Playa del Rey) I'm thankful that the officer is OK. He was lucky. Good thing he was wearing a vest.
Posted by: glenn grab | January 19, 2011 at 02:04 PM
this is a comment from inside the school. We hope the police officer is okay and we are waiting for further information.
Posted by: IG | January 19, 2011 at 02:30 PM
Live by the gun, die by the gun...
Hope he makes a full recovery.
Posted by: westsidejesse | January 19, 2011 at 02:54 PM
Im stuck in the bathroom on the toilet. Someone help me :(
Posted by: Malcolm | January 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM
This is exactly why the police need to ready to shoot first when threatened, when they are slow to respond they will and do get shot!
Thank God for the bulletproof vest, I hope the officer recovers fully.
Posted by: u know | January 19, 2011 at 04:16 PM
The victims of the police harassment are getting tired of this and are fighting back now!
Posted by: Mostrenko | January 19, 2011 at 09:35 PM
LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Nicholas | January 28, 2011 at 09:48 AM