Global Courant
A Los Angeles Police Department detective was hit in the head by shrapnel Thursday night while training at the Police Academy shooting range in Elysian Park.
The detective, who was not identified, suffered lacerations to his head and was taken to a local hospital, LAPD Captain Kelly Muniz said. According to sources familiar with the incident, while bleeding, the detective was coherent and able to speak.
He was treated for his injury and later released.
The detective was training for a job at the shooting range around 8 p.m. when shrapnel from another job hit him in the head, police said in a statement. No other details were immediately available about the incident.
“We will conduct an internal investigation into how this incident happened,” Muniz said. She noted that it is not uncommon for officers to train at the shooting range at night as part of their regular training.
