Thaindian News

By Meena Kar
Jan 20, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Chaos took the upper hand on Wednesday morning near the area around El Camino High School in Woodland thereby disrupting the normalcy of livelihood. According to reports, a 30-year-old Los Angeles school police officer was shot near the school but fortunately, the bullet struck the officer’s body armor for which he was not severely injured. The shooting took place at 11:40 in the morning on Manton Avenue, located south of Burbank Boulevard. The incident triggered a hunt for the suspect in the entire area with more than 350 officers along with the sheriff’s deputies who kept hunting for the suspect. As police searched for the suspect, the students who were locked down inside the classroom following the alleged shooting finally reunited with their parents.

School Police Chief Steve Zipperman reported that 8-year veteran Officer Jeff Stenroos approached a suspect northeast of El Camino Real High School. He went on to say that the suspect was known through a phone call. This suspect was about to break into some cars as reported by Steve Zipperman. He said that as the suspect was confronted, a shooting took place on the encounter in which Officer Jeff Stenroos got hit in his chest for once. Since the officer was wearing the ballistic armor, his life was saved, said the School Police Chief. The colleagues of the officer are very thankful that the bullet-proof vest saved his life. Steve Zipperman said that normally Officer Jeff Stenroos worked in Cleveland High School, in Resada, but was on his duty at El Camino Real only yesterday.

On being taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Jeff Stenroos he was reported to be “a lucky man” by Dr. Stephen Jones. The former suffered only a chest bruise and there were minor injuries at the back of his head at the time he fell down after he was shot. The attending doctor said that the bullet-proof vest did the job by bouncing the bullet off his chest.