{"id":49914,"date":"2022-05-27T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49914"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:44:28","slug":"teen-charged-with-allegedly-shooting-at-lapd-officers-with-a-ghost-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49914","title":{"rendered":"Teen Charged with Allegedly Shooting at LAPD Officers with a &#8220;Ghost&#8221; Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6360 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/District-Attorney-Los-Angeles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"261\" \/>A man is charged with using a ghost gun to shoot at two Los Angeles police officers in a patrol car on Monday, officials allege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cStopping violent crime that targets police officers, and the people they are sworn to protect, is essential to building safer and healthier communities,\u201d District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n said. \u201cMy office is holding accountable the people who use guns to harm others and working to restrict access to ghost guns, which have contributed to the recent rise in violent crime across our nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Anthony Lamont Hill, 18, faces two counts each of willful, deliberate and premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer in performance of their duties and assault with a semi-automatic firearm on a peace officer in performance of their duties as well as one count of carrying an unregistered firearm in public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On May 23, two officers in a marked patrol vehicle reportedly saw the suspect walking down Washington Boulevard with a weapon. Officers attempted to contact the defendant who then ran from officers, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">As officers drove toward the defendant, Hill allegedly turned around and fired a 9mm Polymer80 unregistered handgun at officers. Bullet strikes were observed in the officers\u2019 patrol vehicle, prosecutors said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Earlier this year, District Attorney Gasc\u00f3n called upon American Express, Mastercard and Visa to stop online payments for the purchase of ghost gun kits. Ghost guns are firearms kits sold mostly on the internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">They are unregistered and lack a serial number, making them untraceable by law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This case remains under investigation by the LAPD&#8217;s Force Investigation Division.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is charged with using a ghost gun to shoot at two Los Angeles police officers in a patrol car on Monday, officials allege. \u201cStopping violent crime that targets police officers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teen Charged with Allegedly Shooting at LAPD Officers with a &quot;Ghost&quot; 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