On Feb 21, 9:06 pm, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
<Pop...@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:

"Police Chief William Bratton said plainclothes officers went to a
known location for the Avenues gang and found four suspects in both
shootings.  Three suspects got out of the car and opened fire with
three weapons, said Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz.  The officers fired
back, killing one person armed with an AK-47 and wounding another,
Bratton said. "Fortunately our officers were the ones left standing
after that shootout," said Bratton, whose SWAT team lost a veteran
officer to a deranged gunman's bullet earlier this month."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_re_us/la_gunbattle;_ylt=Aqc.DSjQSuV.5P
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LOS ANGELES - Two gang shootings led to a police gunbattle Thursday in which
officers killed one gunman, wounded another and captured a suspect in a
surging gang conflict, authorities said. A victim in the first gang shooting
also died.

"For approximately the last month, two of the gangs in this area of the city
... gangs that have been here for generations, have been going at each
other," Bratton said.

Los Angeles has had a significant reduction in gang violence in the last few
years but the northeast area is among "hotspots" that emerge from time to
time, Diaz said.