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LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif.<\/strong> – Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were on scene after officials said a rider accidentally shot himself late Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Officials said the shooting happened at 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of Slauson and South Fairfax avenues. Los Angeles County fire officials confirmed one person was taken to an area hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n No other injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n Slauson is expected to remain closed from La Tijera Boulevard to Fairfax Avenue for the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “This morning, while Bus Line 108 was stopped at Slauson and Fairfax, a rider accidently discharged a firearm, injuring himself. The individual was transported to a local hospital. Metro is thankful to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department (LASD) and Los Angeles County Fire Department for quickly responding and extends its wishes for a quick recovery to the person injured. The LASD is leading the investigation. Anyone with additional information is asked to call the LASD Transit Services Bureau at 323-563-5000.”<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The name of the passenger has not been released and his condition is unknown.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This story was written with information from Los Angeles County and Metro officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ladera Heights<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Metro<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. – Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were on scene after officials…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6082,2961,26074,271812,224,6080,5337,5248,50,522,68],"class_list":["post-874266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-la","tag-la-los-angeles-county","tag-ladera-heights","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-losangeles","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-transportation","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116767306133992308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874266","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=874266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}