Update: LAPD Shoots Man Wielding a Knife Near Mar Vista's Jack in the Box

Update 4:45 p.m. A Patch crime reporter happened to be listening to the police scanner overnight at the time of the incident and heard the following:

2:30 a.m.  Washington Place and Centinela Avenue, Mar Vista:
A Pacific Division LAPD patrol unit has stopped a vehicle at the location, and radioed the dispatcher to send another patrol unit for "back-up."

Then, heard from one of the officer's police radio, the LAPD officers are yelling to the person they have stopped, and the first officer's voice can be heard saying, "Put down that now!"

Then a second officer's voice is heard yelling, "Put down the knife!"

The first officer yells again, "Put down that..."

The transmission ends.

Immediately after the transmission ends, the Pacific Division LAPD dispatcher radios out to all Pacific Division units that there is a "ROVER activation" (ROVER stands for Remote Out-of-Vehicle Emergency Radio), and the dispatcher broadcasts to the units, "Officer needs help."

2:31 a.m.  Washington Place and Centinela Avenue, Mar Vista:

The dispatcher continues the broadcast with the location of the officers in need. "Washington Place and Centinela, officer needs help. Washington Place and Centinela." The dispatcher also requests a supervisor to the scene.

911 receives calls for "shots heard" at Washington Place and Centinela, and the dispatcher notifies the patrol officers responding."Washington Place and Centinela, shots fired. Officer needs help! Washington Place and Centinela, shots fired. Officer needs help!" The dispatcher requests an air unit (LAPD helicopter) to respond to the location.

2:32 a.m.  Washington Place and Centinela Avenue, Mar Vista:

The LAPD officer at the scene radios the dispatcher, and excitedly requests, "Officer/R.A.!(Officer-involved shooting, send a rescue ambulance) Male, conscious and breathing."

The dispatcher confirms with the officers that there is "one (alleged) suspect in custody" (the one injured by gunfire) and another alleged suspect is being taken into custody, "near the Jack-in-the-Box.

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6:34 a.m. The Los Angeles Police Department said one of its officer shot and wounded a suspect around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in Mar Vista.

Sgt. Brian Gura of LAPD’s Pacific station said the man in question approached officers near a Jack in the Box in the area of Centinela Avenue and Washington Place wielding a knife.

Sgt. Gura said the suspect had previously been watched by officers in a patrol car as a possible drunk driver.

KTLA reported that two LAPD officers stopped a car with one driver and one passenger for a possible DUI and that's when one of the men threatened the officers with a knife.

The man was shot once in the stomach and was taken to hospital where he underwent surgery. Police say he is expected to survive.

The second man was taken into custody and is being held at the Pacific station. The charges against him were not immediately available.

City News Service contributed to this report

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