Officials: No gun recovered from suspect wounded in DEA agent shooting in Montebello

MONTEBELLO >> Details slowly continued to emerge over the weekend after a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot and wounded an unarmed suspect as he fled from a Montebello home Friday afternoon.
DEA special agents were teamed with Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies when the shooting took place about 1:50 p.m. Friday behind a home in the 700 block of Carmelita Place, according to DEA and sheriff’s officials.
“The special agents were conducting a narcotics investigation and were in the process of contacting the occupants of a residence when several individuals ran out the back of the house,” Lt. John Corina of the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau said in a written statement.
“One suspect, a 35 year-old man, jumped a fence and ran through neighboring yards before encountering other DEA special agents who were positioned on the next street over,” Corina said. “At that point, an officer-involved shooting occurred.”
The suspect was struck once by gunfire and was taken to a hospital where he was expected to survive, Corina said.
“A gun was not recovered from the scene, but the investigation is ongoing,” the lieutenant said.
Sheriff’s officials withheld the suspect’s name, and it was unclear if he was to face any charges. No further details were released Sunday.
As in all Los Angeles County officer-involved shootings, a parallel investigation is also being carried out by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, officials said.

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