Police search for man who shot at officer
Police set up a containment area as they conduct a ten-hour search for a man suspected of shooting at a Redondo police officer Monday morning. Photo An intense, ten hour manhunt failed to locate a man suspected of shooting at a Redondo Beach police officer in the early hours of Monday morning. The incident began at 1:15 a.m., after the officer pulled alongside the man walking along 166th Street in Lawndale, just a few hundred yards east of Redondo’s Inglewood Avenue border. According to police reports, the man appeared to be hovering around parked vehicles on the street. As the officer exited his patrol car, the man took a single shot at him. The officer returned fire, firing at least three rounds. A neighbor who identified himself as Hector F. said he heard the exchange. He said the first thing he heard was a man scream loudly. It seemed, he said, that the man taunted the officer before firing. “I heard, ‘What you got?’ Then I heard rat-a-tat-tat,” he said. The neighbor said he looked out his window to see the officer with a handgun in one hand and his radio in the other, using his patrol car’s door to shield himself as he called for assistance. Every law enforcement agency in…
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