Los Angeles Times

LAPD OFFICERS SHOOT 2, 1 FATALLY

In separate incidents, armed man is killed and armed woman is wounded, officials say.

- By Kevin Rector Times staff writer James Queally contribute­d to this report.

Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man Wednesday night and injured a woman in a separate incident early Thursday, authoritie­s said.

In the f irst shooting, police said a man approached a group of people at a gas station and aimed a f irearm at them before officers shot him. Authoritie­s said the woman injured in the second shooting also had a firearm.

About four hours after the f irst shooting, which occurred at 10 p. m. in Southeast Los Angeles, seven people were arrested after a scuff le with police. Officers said a “female protester” crossed a police line and was detained, then six others tried to intervene to free her.

Police have not identified the two people shot by officers in the separate overnight incidents and have provided few details about the circumstan­ces of the shootings. They also did not name the seven people who were arrested on suspicion of resisting, delaying or obstructin­g a police officer.

In the f irst shooting, according to police, patrol officers were traveling east on 111th Street near Figueroa Street in Southeast L. A. when they saw a man approach a group of four people in the parking lot of a gas station and point a gun at the bystanders.

The officers “stopped and gave the suspect commands, which he failed to comply with,” police said. They shot the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

A f irearm was recovered, authoritie­s said.

At about 2: 30 a. m. Thursday, police said a woman crossed a line of yellow police tape at the periphery of the scene. When officers detained her, six other people crossed the tape “and attempted to free the female from police custody,” prompting a struggle with officers, police said.

During the struggle, authoritie­s said one officer suffered a hand injury that required stitches.

In the second shooting, which occurred about 2: 30 a. m. in the Winnetka area of the San Fernando Valley, off icers responded to a radio call that said a woman was trespassin­g at a hotel in the 20100 block of Vanowen Street, police said.

At the scene, officers said they “went to the room where the woman was said to be and found her there armed with a handgun.”

The woman was shot by police, suffering what officials described as an injury that was not life- threatenin­g. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.

A f irearm was recovered at the scene, police said.

Both shootings will be investigat­ed by the department’s Force Investigat­ion Division, as is standard in police shootings.

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