Police kill man; woman found dead

Los Angeles police fatally shot a man late Tuesday afternoon during a confrontation downtown, authorities said.

The shooting occurred about 4:50 p.m. on Hope Street between 11th and 12th streets, according to LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman.

Officers were flagged down by an L.A. City Department of Transportation officer and directed toward the man, who was wielding a large kitchen knife.

The man was struck by gunfire from at least one officer. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Neiman said.

No officers were injured. The officers were wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting, Neiman said.

As police investigated along Hope Street, which was closed to traffic between 11th and 12th streets, a woman arrived and notified officers of a dead woman in a nearby apartment.

Officers went to an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Flower Street, one block from the shooting, and found a woman in her 40s who had died “of an obvious homicide,” Neiman said.

The proximity of the slaying to the confrontation with the knife-wielding man raised suspicion.

“At this point, we don’t know if they are connected, but we are looking at the potential for that,” Neiman said.