Pasadena officer wounded, suspect killed in shooting

A shootout on Monday night left a Pasadena Police Department officer wounded and a suspect dead. 

Officers responded to the area after reports of a shooting at the Sierra Madre Villa train station on Halstead Street at around 7:30 p.m., according to Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris.

When officers arrived, they located one man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.  Other officers found a man matching the suspect's description near the intersection of Sierra Madre Villa Avenue and Del Vina Street.

He ran away from officers and then exchanged gunfire with them, wounding one of the officers, according to Harris.

The suspect died in the neighborhood. 

The officer was rushed to the hospital in an unknown condition. City spokesperson Lisa Derderian said the officer was in surgery at 8:42 p.m.