A teenage boy shot by South Gate police remained in critical condition at a hospital Sunday and his mother contends the 17-year-old was shot in the back.
Angel Solorio was shot about 8:45 p.m. Saturday near the Jordan Downs Housing Projects at the corner of Grape and 97th streets, officials said.
Police also shot at a 25-year-old man but missed him -- twice, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's officials.
The boy's mother, Maria Morfin, was at the hospital Sunday night, consulting with an attorney, someone who answered her cell phone told Patch.
She told Patch that her son was in critical condition and that she had not been allowed to see him Sunday. Morfin said a law enforcement officer had been outside her son's room Saturday night.
Morfin told other news agencies her son was shot twice.
The events with South Gate police began when they were called to investigate a carjacking at Montara Avenue, near Tweedy Boulevard.
The stolen GMC was later spotted about a half-mile away and police watching the SUV saw four males taking items out.
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A chase ensued and officers were led into Los Angeles, where the shootings occurred.
Morfin said police have not spoken to her about her son; sheriff's homicide investigators were on the case.
Officials were still trying to determine whether the suspects who were chased had anything to do with the carjacking.
Morfin told news outlets that her daughter and Angel were going to his
girlfriend's home in the same complex, to attend the girlfriend's birthday party.
A few minutes later, her daughter was banging on her front door saying
that Solorio had been shot by police and that there was some sort of car crash
prior to the shooting -- which turned out to be Morfin's vehicle.
Morfin said it was unclear who had taken the car keys from the home but according to the mother, Angel was not behind the wheel at the time of the crash.
She said that following the incidents of that night, people told her that Angel was shot by police as he ran home; officers reportedly called him by someone else's name.
Morfin said police showed her a picture of a suspect who may have been
driving her car -- someone she did not recognize.
-- City News Service contributed to this report
About the story, we need a better report. The whole thing is confusing on how things happened .
the cops that work in these rough areas are obviously on edge and might be a little trigger happy, the victim may not have had a weapon on him but if he was involved in the crime and started running away he obviously knew that there's the possibility of danger involved either by trigger happy cops or trigger happy thugs, all I'm saying is if he was an innocent victim that just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time then I have sympathy for him, but if it turns out he did the crime,he had to have known the risks either way I do feel sorry for his mom,hopefully hopefully the facts will come out soon
If these thugs that car jacked the victim had the balls to stab an innocent person for a car, they wouldn’t hesitate to shoot at a Police officer. If the officer was chasing the suspects of a carjacking and stabbing what do you spec the him to do? To removed his Bullet proof best and walk around like he is in the park. I don’t blame him to fear for his life Let’s flip the coin a bit, what do you think about the real victims in this case. Everybody is forgetting the reason why this whole situation came about. Did the Victims have a chance NOT to get car jacked and stabbed? Do they matter at all on this situation? If indeed this guy is guilty of the crime, he put himself in this situation. I’m not happy that he got shot and truly hopes he recovers as well as the victim that got stabbed, but I do hope he goes to jail for a long time for this crime