A Compton woman is struck by a stray bullet while standing in her kitchen. The 9mm round, likely from a gang shooting, travels a long distance and comes through her apartment window. Firefighters carry her down the stairs and perform CPR before rushing her to the hospital, where she reportedly dies. Family members cry as police question witnesses.
Fire breaks out at a Compton auto repair shop and engulfs a bus parked in the yard. Two Compton police officers arrive first, cut open a locked gate with bolt cutters and pull a trapped man to safety. Firefighters battle the flames for about 30 minutes.
Compton police chase a gunman to a home after a shots-fired call. When he turns on officers with an AK-47 on the porch, four Compton officers and a federal agent open fire, hitting him several times. Inside, officers find a man he had shot twice. Both are rushed to the hospital.
A woman crossing Rosecrans Avenue with her boyfriend is struck by a white pickup truck that speeds away. She is seriously injured and taken to Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Paramedics load her into an American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance as Compton Police, Sheriff’s deputies and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) investigate and question witnesses. Compton PD footage is rare: the department was disbanded in 2000.