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"The El Monte Police Department responded to a possible stabbing
at the Siesta Inn and officers immediately took gunfire upon
arrival," police said in a statement.
"The city of El Monte is saddened and shocked by tonight's
tragic shooting that killed two of our own police officers."
Gun violence in the United States has been under scrutiny after
last month's massacres at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas
- which left 19 children and two teachers dead - and a
supermarket in Buffalo, New York - which killed 10 people.
The mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo have prompted new
efforts in the U.S. Congress to enact stricter federal gun
control laws.
The two officers who were shot were taken to the LAC-USC Medical
Center where they died from their injuries, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was probing the
incident.
A suspect in the shooting, an unidentified man, was also killed
during the exchange of gunfire, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department said.
The names of the officials were not released. Local media outlet
KTLA said one of the officers was a 22-year veteran of the El
Monte Police Department while the other had been a member of the
police force for less than a year.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Edmund
Klamann)
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