{"id":628896,"date":"2026-03-03T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:41:14","slug":"police-kill-suspected-gunman-in-pasadena-shootout-1-officer-1-victim-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628896\/","title":{"rendered":"Police kill suspected gunman in Pasadena shootout; 1 officer, 1 victim wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A gunfight broke out between police and a shooting suspect in Pasadena on Monday evening, leaving the suspect dead and one officer wounded, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Pasadena Police Department responded to a call for a man who was shot in the shoulder near the Metro Homestead Train Station by Sierra Madre Villa Avenue and Electronic Drive around 7:30 p.m., according to city spokesperson Lisa Derderian. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving, officers located the suspect and pursued him on foot for about three blocks. The suspect and police exchanged gunfire, and the suspect was killed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The initial shooting victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition, and the wounded officer was transported in unknown condition. The officer was undergoing surgery on Monday night, and many on- and off-duty police officers were visiting the hospital to offer support to his family, Derderian said.<\/p>\n<p>The scene remained \u201cvery active\u201d as of 10 p.m Monday evening as robbery and homicide detectives responded to the incident, she said. Investigators from the L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office were also at the scene and will be investigating the police shooting, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopter footage <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/pasadena-officer-shot-in-apparent-exchange-of-gunfire-that-left-1-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">captured by KTLA <\/a>showed a massive deployment of law enforcement around the cordoned-off area, where the deceased suspect remained on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever a call goes out over the radio, \u2018shots fired\u2019 or anything like that, it is as bone chilling as you can imagine,\u201d Pasadena Police Chief Harris told reporters at the scene. \u201cWe\u2019re really concerned about our people, taking care of our people and making sure that they\u2019re taking care of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gunfight broke out between police and a shooting suspect in Pasadena on Monday evening, leaving the suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":628897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,13136,246,29768,6478,2961,2936,224,5337,73922,4531,268304,3546,7207,7272,9260,268305,7238,7307],"class_list":["post-628896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-call","tag-family","tag-gunman","tag-hospital","tag-la","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-monday-evening","tag-officer","tag-pasadena-shootout","tag-people","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-scene","tag-sierra-madre-villa-avenue","tag-suspect","tag-victim"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116164590488470875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628896","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=628896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}