CALIFORNIA

| Inglewood — A gunman who fired several shots at a pair of Southern California police officers, hitting one, and held two people hostage for nearly nine hours was booked Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder, a sheriff ’s official said. Christopher Warsaw, 45, was being held on $1 million bail, said Los Angeles County sheriff ’s Deputy Guillermina Saldana.

What happened

Warsaw was arrested late Wednesday after engaging police in a nearly nine-hour standoff after taking his girlfriend and her 14-year-old daughter hostage, authorities said. He fired at officers who responded to a family disturbance call from the home that came at 12:30 p.m. The worst injury occurred when an Inglewood policeman was shot in his protective vest. He was taken to a hospital in good condition but “in a lot of pain,” police Capt. James D. Madia said. A second officer was not hit but was hurt when she fell in the chaos that followed, Madia said. The gunman, his girlfriend and her 14-year-old daughter all came away unharmed, police said.

Eyewitness

Esther Frazier, who lives across the street from the standoff, said she was baking a cake for Thanksgiving when she heard a commotion. “There were so many gunshots, oh my God, it was like you were in a war zone,” she said. “A shot came through the screen on my door.”