Cops surrounded house in hunt for second gunman after one officer was shot dead and another was injured in San Diego
Cops are still on the hunt for other possible suspects
SAN DIEGO police surrounded a house on Friday just half a mile from the site of a shootout that left one cop dead and another seriously injured.
Officers used a bullhorn and other loud devices in a bid to get a man to leave the house.
The siege began hours after a gunfight broke out after anti-gang police officers tried to stop a car.
Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman reported that the two officers said they were making the stop shortly after 11pm and almost immediately radioed for emergency cover.
When responding officers reached the scene they rushed one of the wounded officers to the hospital in a patrol car, but tragically efforts to save him failed.
Zimmerman said that the officer had a wife and two children.
She added: "Despite heroic efforts by officers on scene and heroic efforts by doctors to save his life, I'm heartbroken to report they were unable to save him, and he is deceased."
Of the other officer she said: “Heroic efforts by the officers on scene, heroic efforts by the doctors to save his life."
She added that the dead officer had been shot multiple times in the torso and that his family had been informed.
One officer has died after being shot multiple times in San Diego
The chief added that police are hopeful the wounded officer will survive. That officer's wife is with him at the hospital, where he had undergone surgery Friday morning.
A male suspect, who was captured in a ravine, was being treated Friday at a hospital. His condition was unknown.
Cops had asked residents to take shelter while the active search for the as yet unsubscribed suspect or suspects.
The shooting comes after a spate of attacks on cops in the US in revenge for police killings of unarmed black men.
Five officers were killed and nine wounded in Dallas, Texas three weeks ago by Army Reserve veteran Micah Xavier Johnson after he ambushed them.
Another three cops were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the following week in another politically motivated attack.
A witness told NBC 7 San Diego via Facebook: "I couldn't even tell you how many cop cars were racing down the freeway. I've never seen anything like that before."
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