A man accused of wounding a Los Angeles officer during a shootout with police — and streaming some of the gunfight in a video on Facebook — was charged this week with more than a dozen felonies, court records show. The SWAT officer wounded in the shooting, described as a 20-year veteran of the LAPD, is recovering at home, Chief Charlie Beck said this week. Knox was one of four suspects detectives were looking for as part of their investigation into the South L.A. homicide, the LAPD has said. Court records show he was one of four men sought in the killing of Whitney Yorke, a 32-year-old man shot as he sat in a chair outside a Jefferson Park home. LAPD detectives and SWAT officers, along with Hawthorne police, ran after him, Beck said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 07, 2017 21:51 UTC