Overview
- LAPD says officers were pursuing a stolen vehicle when the 27-year-old fled on foot in Lincoln Heights.
- The man ran onto a construction site near Sichel Street and Alhambra Avenue and fell into an open, roughly 4-foot-wide vertical shaft.
- LAFD and search-and-rescue crews responded shortly after 9:30 p.m., positioning an aerial ladder truck as an anchor for a confined-space rescue.
- Rescuers lowered wristlets around 10:45 p.m. and hoisted the patient out before he was taken to a local trauma center in critical condition.
- Authorities identified the event as a developing incident, with investigative and medical updates pending.