Police were scouring a Canoga Park neighborhood for a man following a Friday morning altercation in which an officer was injured.
A citywide, modified tactical alert was ordered as officers set up a perimeter in the area of Vanowen Street and De Soto Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
A description of the man they were searching for was not provided. Police said they know him and he is not wearing shoes. They identified him as 26-year-old Broomi Mansour.
"I almost hit him with the vehicle, because he just jumped straight into the road in front of us," said Dalton Richards describing the moment behind the wheel of his work van when the suspect ran through the street. "He was running like this, hands behind him, just running as fast as he could."
The officer suffered cuts to the head in a fall during the altercation, the LAPD said. The severity of the injury was not immediately known.
Dalton and his co-worker, Chanson Flowers, who work for a water conservation company, ran to the officer and pulled him out of the street and onto the sidewalk. Both have ROTC and medical training and used gauze from Dalton's first-aid kit to stop the bleeding.
"There was just blood everywhere, I thought he got shot," Flowers said.
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The men said the officer had a gash over his eye and they could see a bone underneath.
Mansour took off running after officers handcuffed him when they saw him lying on ground and discovered he had an outstanding warrant.
While the officers were running after him, one of them tripped and fell on his face.
One person was questioned and released during the search.
Officers broke down the perimeter before noon.
Joe Studley contributed to this report.
