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San Diego Police Officer Killed, Second Officer Hurt In Shooting

SAN DIEGO (CBS/AP) — The Latest on the shooting of two police officers in San Diego. (all times local):

6:30 a.m.

San Diego's police chief says the fatal shooting of a police officer and wounding of a second occurred during a traffic stop.

Chief Shelley Zimmerman says the gang suppression officers reported they were making the stop shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday and almost immediately radioed for emergency cover.

Responding officers immediately put one of the wounded officers into a patrol car and rushed off to a hospital but efforts to save him failed. Zimmerman says that officer had a wife and two children.

The chief says they are hopeful the wounded officer will survive. That officer's wife is with him at the hospital.

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4:15 a.m.

San Diego's police chief says the second of two police officers shot is expected to survive.

Chief Shelley Zimmerman says in a Twitter post Friday morning that she had just left the hospital where the officer had just come out of surgery.

Officials announced earlier that the other officer had died.

The unidentified officers were shot Thursday night in a San Diego neighborhood.

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3:15 a.m.

Authorities say one police officer has died and another remains in surgery after being shot in a San Diego neighborhood.

The department gave an update on the officers on its Twitter account early Friday, but offered no additional details.

The shooting occurred late Thursday night.

Authorities say two police officers have been shot in a San Diego neighborhood.

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1:06 a.m.

The San Diego Union-Tribune says police are reporting that the shooting occurred late Thursday night.

The condition of the officers was not immediately available.

There was no immediate word on what touched off the shooting, which occurred around 11 p.m. PDT in the southeastern part of the city.

No other details are immediately available.

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