During an armed standoff in mid-March, a SWAT officer was shot in the face by a gunman, according to bodycam footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department
The incident started around 12:15 pmon March 16th, when the Los Angeles Police Department received a complaint of a man shooting a rifle into the air in the backyard of ahome in the 1000-block of West 21st Street
The lot where the gunman was allegedly shooting the weapon was said to contain two different households, one in the front and one in the back, according to LAPD Chief MichelMoore
The police chief further noted that the perpetrator, 37-year-old Jorge Cerda, was located by responding officers in the backyard of the lot