ARCADIA, Calif.—A man accused of shooting an Arcadia police officer in the face and wounding two other people—including his 73-year-old mother—and sparking a roughly five-hour standoff, was in custody Aug. 11, and the officer was being treated at a hospital and expected to recover.
Nurhan Venk, 47, who suffered an apparently accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg during the incident, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, according to Lt. Derrick Alfred of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Venk also allegedly shot his 73-year-old mother, Ankine Venk, in the chest, Alfred said. An 83-year-old man who lives across the street, Zoo Yang, was wounded in the eye by a stray bullet that passed through a window frame….