Torrance Police fired at Redondo Beach man
Officers were reportedly responding to a “shots fired” call when they saw a black pick-up truck (pictured) and shot at it. The driver, Redondo resident David Perdue, was not hit. Photo When Redondo Beach man David Perdue loaded his surfboard into his truck last Thursday morning, he couldn’t have anticipated being blindsided and fired at by Torrance Police officers on his way to the beach. But that, Perdue’s attorney Robert Sheahen told Easy Reader, is exactly what happened. Perdue, who has a wife and two kids and works as a baggage handler at LAX, was headed to the beach when an officer in a Torrance Police vehicle flagged him down and asked him what he was doing in the neighborhood. Perdue offered his identification card and explained he was going surfing, and the officer sent him on his way. Within 10 seconds, Sheahen said, a second Torrance Police car “rammed David’s truck and spun him around.” According to Sheahen, the vehicle “broadsided” Perdue without any warning on Beryl and Flagler – technically Torrance, but on the Redondo Beach border – at approximately 5:15 a.m. Thursday morning. “It’s lucky that the officers and David were not all killed in the impact of the crash; it…
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