LOS ANGELES — Two El Monte, California, police officers were shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while responding to a possible stabbing at a motel, leaving many in this suburb east of Los Angeles stunned.
El Monte officials said the officers were immediately targeted by gunfire upon responding to the Siesta Inn near Central and Garvey avenues.
At a news conference Tuesday night, Capt. Andrew Meyer, who leads the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau, confirmed that officers responded to a call for a possible stabbing at a motel, that they confronted the suspect in a motel room and fired their weapons, and that the suspect ran out of the room and into a parking lot, where the officers fired again.
