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LAPD manhunt: Officers who shot at bystanders placed on leave; women recovering

Brian Watt with Erika Aguilar | February 8th, 2013, 11:32am

UPDATE 2:37 p.m. Los Angeles police’s mistaken shooting of two women driving a pickup truck in Torrance took place on Redbeam Avenue right in front of the house of Richard Goo.

Goo believes the two women were about to deliver the Los Angeles Times to his house, but they didn’t make it.

“It’s very unfortunate because they were just doing their job,” Goo said in an interview in front of his house. Goo, a cardiology technician, has lived in the neighborhood for eight years. He said he and his wife were in bed when they heard gunshots.

“We heard all this pop-pop-popping. And then I hit the ground, crawled around, dragged her out of bed, onto the floor and then laid on top of her,” he said.

When he called 911, Goo said the dispatcher told him the police were right outside his house and to stay in the back of his house until officers came to tell him it was clear. Several bullets from the shooting hit his house and cars. He believes between 30 and 50 rounds of shots were fired.

“When one of the ricochets hit off our glass door, I thought it had come through the door into our living room,” Goo remembered. “So I thought bullets were coming into the house.”

Goo called the whole situation “ironic.”

“It’s a bad time to be driving a pickup truck,” he said. “It’s sad that that makes you a target by the LAPD, but they’ve been targeted, so they’re responding.”

Goo said he didn’t know that LAPD officers were in his neighborhood to protect a department official named in Christopher Dorner’s manifesto, but he knows that a lot of retired officers from police forces in the region and retired firefighters live in his neighborhood.

“That’s why we live here — it’s a very safe neighborhood,” Goo said, chuckling. “And it’s ironic that the only violence our neighborhood has experienced is this — and it was brought to us courtesy of the LAPD.”

Read at:

http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/02/08/35886/attorney-two-women-shot-police-torrance-says-offic/