Our Lovely Neighborhood

I was at home yesterday and started hearing helicopters circling close by around 12pm. I eventually decided to turn on the news to see if they mentioned anything and saw that there was "breaking news" in Gardena. A police officer had been shot at the corner of Rosecrans and Normandie (A), which is only .6 miles from our house (B).

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Ryan and I kept checking the news online to see what was going on (he was at work, but he could see the helicopters in the distance). At one point they thought they had the shooter trapped in a dumpster, so the SWAT team surrounded it but no one was inside. They blocked off a large section of the surrounding neighborhood and hundreds of police searched the area. The last we heard on the news was that the areas blocked off were east of Normandie (we're on the west side). We decided to go to Target around 6:30pm and were surprised to see police at the end of our street. Apparently the search area was widened since they still hadn't found the shooter or the two other suspects. We finally found out this morning that the shooter had been found hiding in someone's hot tub, but the other two haven't been found.


SWAT team in Gardena
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