Harrowing video shows man firing automatic rifle at Los Angeles police

The Los Angeles Police Department has released video footage from the harrowing July 3 attack on officers after an attempted traffic stop.

Around 9 p.m., officers attempted to pull over a white Chevrolet sedan at the corner of Broadway and Rosecrans Avenue in the South L.A. neighborhood of Willowbrook.

Video from the incident, released by the LAPD on Friday, shows two officers inside a police vehicle discussing potential booking charges against the suspect. The suspect, later identified as Malcolm Darnell Guss Jr., then stops the car and appears to fires several shots in rapid succession at the police vehicle before the officers could exit.

“What’d he hit us with, dude,” one of the officers can be heard saying in the video.

Joshua Rodney, one of the involved officers, returned fire but failed to hit Guss.

Rodney was grazed by two shots on his head, resulting in wounds. He and the other officer, Stefan Carutasu, both suffered lacerations from glass fragments coming off of the vehicle’s windshield.

Guss managed to escape the scene but was taken into custody on July 12. He’s facing the following charges:

• One count of attempted murder of a peace officer 
• Two counts of assault with a machine gun upon a peace officer 
• One count of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle 
• One count of possession of a machine gun  
• Two counts of possession of firearm by a felon 

If convicted, Guss could receive a life sentence in prison, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office.

KTLA’s Josh DuBose contributed to this report.