A police shooting occurred during a traffic stop in San Pedro Saturday.
Around midnight police were looking into a parked car with four people inside at 18th St. and Pacific Ave.
When police made contact they found that one person inside the car had a gun.
Police say that they took the gun away from that man's waistband. They say that the man ignored multiple commands to surrender and he lunged at them.
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That is when police fired and hit the man in his left hand. He was transported to a hospital, where he is in stable condition.
The other three people in the car were not injured or detained.
No officers were injured.
