An Anaheim police officer fired at, but did not hit, a man who threatened him with a gun on Saturday night, April 12. Officers later found a man who had been injured in a separate shooting, police said.
Two officers were investigating a report of people drinking and being loud on Lynne Avenue around 8:30 p.m. when they heard gunshots. A man then approached the officers while carrying a gun, Sgt. Matt Sutter, a Police Department spokesman, said Sunday.
One officer fired but did not hit the man, Sutter said. That man was arrested, and a gun was found in nearby bushes.
Officers then found a man who had been shot in a crime that Sutter attributed to the earlier gunshots. That man, an Anaheim resident, was hospitalized, He was expected to survive, Sutter said.
The sergeant said investigators do not yet know who shot that man.
No officers were reported injured.