Police officers mistakenly shot and killed a passenger in an approaching car and wounded the driver, a newspaper report said on Monday.
The officers said they shot at the approaching car because they believed they were under fire, but no weapons were found in the car and no one has been charged, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The passenger was identified as 19-year-old Michael Byoune of Los Angeles, who died at the scene from gunshot wounds to the torso, Los Angeles County coroner's investigator Jerry McKibben was quoted as saying.
The officers were in their patrol car in Inglewood near downtown Los Angeles about 1:40 a.m. on Sunday when they heard gunfire and pursued a man who was running, said Inglewood Police Sgt. Hector Ramirez.
The man jumped into a slow-moving car and the officers heard more shots and felt something hit their cruiser, Ramirez said.
The officers then fired several shots as the vehicle came toward them, according to police. The driver is in stable condition with a leg wound, and a third man in the car was not injured. He was taken into custody, questioned and released, police said.
Police Sgt. Dennis Brown later said the patrol car had not been hit by gunfire. Investigators initially indicated that the incident might have been gang-related, but later said the three men were not suspected gang members.
Source:Xinhua
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