A Los Angeles Police Department employee accidentally shot himself Friday at City Hall East, two sources told The Times. <\/p>\n
The gun was the employee\u2019s personal weapon and the bullet left a graze wound, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren\u2019t allowed to talk to the media. <\/p>\n
Officers cordoned off the lobby and entrance to the building on Main Street and declined to let anyone pass. <\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier today there was an unintentional discharge of a firearm at City Hall East involving a non-sworn security services division employee,\u201d said LAPD spokesperson Jennifer Forkish. \u201cThere were no serious injuries and the matter is being handled by our Internal Affairs investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forkish declined to answer additional questions about the incident or confirm the employee shot himself.<\/p>\n
City Hall East is connected to the main City Hall building via a walkway and includes the offices of the city attorney and city controller.<\/p>\n
Guards typically sit in the lobby and check the credentials of visitors. <\/p>\n
The sources said that the employee was at a desk when the gun went off and did not describe what part of the person\u2019s body was injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Police Department employee accidentally shot himself Friday at City Hall East, two sources told The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[9102,1582,276,66372,54444,104368,104372,104371,4236,7614,2961,104369,66451,224,5337,104373,104370,17521,637,15708],"class_list":{"0":"post-186127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-building","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-city-attorney","12":"tag-city-controller","13":"tag-city-hall-east","14":"tag-credential","15":"tag-entrance","16":"tag-guard","17":"tag-gun","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-lapd-employee","20":"tag-lobby","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-main-street","24":"tag-personal-weapon","25":"tag-source","26":"tag-times","27":"tag-visitor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115293915526401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}