LOS ANGELES (KNX) — Two officers with the Los Angeles Police Department are under investigation for firing shots into their neighbors' apartments.
Police Chief Michel Moore revealed the shootings during a meeting with the department's civilian oversight commission on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The "unintentional discharges" happened under very similar circumstances just five days apart in late April.
The first officer was removing a gun from a holster on April 22 when the weapon fired. The bullet went through the wall and into the apartment next door. The residents were not home, and no one was injured. The Times noted that the officer recently graduated from the police academy and is still in a probationary period.
The second officer was cleaning his gun on April 27 when the weapon fired a bullet through the wall of his apartment. The round landed in the next-door unit where two people were inside. No one was injured.
The department is also investigation a third unintentional discharge involving an on-duty officer who was handling a co-worker's gun on April 28 when the weapon fired a single round into the floor of a police station.
Moore told the commission he was concerned about the shootings, which he said show an officer's "carelessness or a lack of familiarity" with firearms they are trusted to handle safely, The Times reported.
The LAPD's Professional Standards Bureau is conducting investigations into all three incidents.
Over the past four years, the LAPD has investigated 31 cases of unintended shootings involving officers, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
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