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Warner and Main? Damn--that's maybe 3 miles (or less) from where I used to live (just off Warner between Newhope and Harbor in Fountain Valley).

There are NO "safe" areas in SoCal anymore.

BTW--OC Register has it now...

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1400281.php

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Police kill officer-shooting suspect
Man fitting Long Beach police shooter's description killed in Santa Ana. Officials wait for positive identification.
By CINDY CARCAMO
The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA – A police shootout Wednesday resulted in the death of a man believed to be the suspect who wounded two Long Beach officers during a traffic stop last week.

Coroner's officials hadn't made a positive identification on the man as of late Wednesday, but Santa Ana officers believe they killed Oscar Gabriel Gallegos at 5:10 pm. in the 200 block of East Warner Avenue, Santa Ana Police Department Sgt. Lorenzo Carrillo said.

Police also had detained a second unidentified man for questioning Wednesday night.

"We don't know the extent of his involvement," Carrillo said.

Police said Gallegos, sought in a statewide manhunt, is a career criminal who has been deported to Mexico at least once.

The manhunt began Friday when Long Beach police said Gallegos walked up to a patrol car and opened fire on Abram Yap and Roy Wade Jr. after they pulled him over about 1:20 p.m. near Long Beach Boulevard and Sixth Street for running a red light.

Yap, a Fountain Valley High School graduate, remains in critical condition.

Wade, a rookie who graduated from the police academy just three weeks ago, was shot multiple times in the upper chest and neck. He remains in critical condition but stable.

Long Beach tracked down a man they believed to be Gallegos in Santa Ana and notified Santa Ana police Wednesday that they'd be keeping him under surveillance. Officers said the suspect was a passenger in a Toyota Camry driven by another man.