http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-shooting-open-season-police-20140827-story.html
Gunmen have shot at peace officers at least four times over the last eight days.
In that incident, the detective and his partner were following up on an investigation when a man opened fire and then ran into an apartment. The man barricaded himself for hours before emerging from the apartment with a gun and was shot to death by deputies. His identity has not been released.
"It seems there's a little bit of an open season on law enforcement lately — attacks that are unprovoked,” said Jeffrey Steck, president of the county deputies' union.
Among those apparently unprovoked shootings was one in San Bernardino on Friday.
According to police, Officer Gabriel Garcia and his rookie partner approached a group of a half-dozen people in a residential neighborhood when one of the men in the group, identified as Alex Alvarado, 38, turned and shot Garcia multiple times with an assault weapon-type rifle. Alvarado was killed in a subsequent firefight; Garcia remains in critical condition.
Garcia was the most seriously injured in the recent spate of shootings, but an LAPD officer engaged in a gun battle Aug. 18 – the first in the recent string of incidents – was also seriously wounded.
The officer was shot during a run-and-gun battle through South L.A. with two men that ended in a neighborhood not far from USC. Andre Maurice Jones, 37, shot an LAPD officer in the leg, shattering his bone and blasting out a chunk of his calf, before he was gunned down by return fire.
Three days earlier, on Aug. 15, a sheriff’s deputy was severely beaten by a man while investigating a domestic violence incident at Lakewood Center mall. The man was unarmed and was taken into custody and the deputy is recovering in the hospital.
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