Feb. 17, 1938: Tear gas fumes come out of home in the 1700 block of East Twenty-second street as police trade shots with barricaded suspect George Farley. Two deputy city marshals were slain by Farley as they tried to serve eviction notice on him. The marshals bodies are lying in front of the barricaded home. Photo by J.H. McCrory/Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive/UCLA
From the Los Angeles Times article:
Feb. 17, 1938: Tear gas drifts from a home in the 1700 block of East 22nd Street as Los Angeles police trade gunfire with barricaded suspect George Farley. The bodies of a deputy city marshal and his helper — shot and killed by Farley as they tried to serve an eviction notice on him — lie in front of the barricaded home. Killed were Deputy Marshal T. Dwight Crittenden and Leon W. Romer, both 60.
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That is some photograph. A large press camera with loads of depth of field I guess.
Though it doesn't look like it from the crop, there is another image, just a scan from the original news print that shows the photographer with what looks to be a Speed Graphic. Pretty cool.