LOS ANGELES—Four people have now been arrested in connection with the shooting death of an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer, authorities said Jan. 12.
The officer, 27-year-old Fernando Arroyos, a three-year veteran of the LAPD, was shot about 9:15 p.m. Monday in an apparent exchange of gunfire with as many as three armed robbery suspects in the unincorporated Firestone-Florence neighborhood in the 8700 block of Beach Street. He died at a hospital.