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11-23-2009, 05:56 PM
SANTA ANA – A Santa Ana SWAT officer accidentally shot himself in the foot while SWAT officers searched a city yard for a possible gunman Tuesday afternoon. No gunman was found.
Police evacuated the city maintenance yard and shut down nearby streets around 1:40 p.m. after a caller from inside the city yard reported that a man with a gun may have walked into an administration building.
A SWAT team evacuated the building, and police were interviewing people as they came out, Cmdr. Tammy Franks said. But nearly five hours later police reopened the building without a sign of the gunman, said Santa Ana police Lt. Don Bray.
Franks said she wasn't sure how the officer shot himself. He was treated by paramedics. Police cars escorted the ambulance out of the city yard. He is expected to recover.
Surrounding streets – including Center, Daisy and Chestnut – were closed while officers searched the city yard.
The city yard, a major maintenance hub for city-owned vehicles and equipment, takes up the better part of a city block.
Authorities were going to several other addresses looking for a man who fit the description of the gunman, Bray said.
(it was an issue Glock 21 .40S&W by the way..)
Police evacuated the city maintenance yard and shut down nearby streets around 1:40 p.m. after a caller from inside the city yard reported that a man with a gun may have walked into an administration building.
A SWAT team evacuated the building, and police were interviewing people as they came out, Cmdr. Tammy Franks said. But nearly five hours later police reopened the building without a sign of the gunman, said Santa Ana police Lt. Don Bray.
Franks said she wasn't sure how the officer shot himself. He was treated by paramedics. Police cars escorted the ambulance out of the city yard. He is expected to recover.
Surrounding streets – including Center, Daisy and Chestnut – were closed while officers searched the city yard.
The city yard, a major maintenance hub for city-owned vehicles and equipment, takes up the better part of a city block.
Authorities were going to several other addresses looking for a man who fit the description of the gunman, Bray said.
(it was an issue Glock 21 .40S&W by the way..)