2/17/2024 0 Comments Compton shooting 1984“When we find that person, we got to get much faster with our courts, and we got to get much tougher with our sentencing,” Trump told a group of supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday.īiden called the shooting “absolutely unconscionable. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden condemned the shooting. Trump, Biden and Schiff denounce the attack Garcetti said “there is no place in our society for the violence that we saw.” He described Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies as guardians of one of the city’s public transit lines.īoth deputies were sworn in 14 months ago, the sheriff said. Contreras, 41, who maintained his innocence, was convicted in 1997 of attempted murder and attempted robbery for a shooting at a Compton gas station a year earlier. Our job does not get any easier because people do not like law enforcement,” Villanueva said. “This is just a somber reminder that this is a dangerous job, and actions and words have consequences. The sheriff’s department tweeted surveillance video of the shooting and the gunman running away. The gunman walked toward the passenger’s side of the deputies’ vehicle, raised a pistol and shot both deputies, Capt. Two sheriff’s deputies in Los Angeles are in critical condition following a shooting in Compton, California on Saturday. “These are two brave individuals who put their lives on the line,” Garcetti said. Garcetti said by an “absolute miracle” it looks like they will both survive.įootage of the incident that appears to have been recorded from surveillance cameras shows a female deputy, who Garcetti identified as a 31-year-old mother, taking cover behind a pillar and rendering aid to her 24-year-old male partner and calling for help. Both are in stable but critical condition after they “got through surgery well,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva told KABC radio. “There’s no other way to put it, they’re amazing,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Monday as he described the bravery of the deputies.īoth deputies were shot four or five times by a gunman in Compton, California, Saturday night, Garcetti said. One of two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies attacked Saturday saved the life of the other by applying a tourniquet - all while bleeding from the gunshot wound to her face. By Madeline Holcombe, Steve Almasy and Cheri Mossburg | CNN
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