The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has authorized a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter.
The deputies are hospitalized in critical condition while the gunman remains on the loose.A $100,000 reward was offered Sunday in the hunt for a gunman who brazenly walked up to a parked patrol SUV and shot two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies multiple times in what officials described as an ambush-style attack.
One of the wounded law enforcement officers, a 31-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy, was shot in the jaw and arms and is listed in critical but stable condition, according to the senior sheriff's officials. The shooting unfolded about 7 p.m. local time on Saturday as the sheriff's deputies sat in their marked patrol car near the Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center, authorities said. Surveillance video released by the sheriff's department showed an individual dressed in a black shorts, a dark jacket and wielding a pistol in his hand walk up to the patrol vehicle and open fire without warning through the passenger-side window.
Law enforcement look at a vehicle at the Metro station in Compton where two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were shot in an ambush on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020.Numerous sheriff's deputies and officials went to St. Francis Medical Center and stood vigil outside the hospital.
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