LOS ANGELES — Police shot and killed three individuals Thursday and an officer was stabbed in a sequence of Southern California confrontations, authorities mentioned.
A person armed with a backyard claw was shot in a Los Angeles suburb, police in Anaheim killed a person armed with a gun after an hours-long standoff and a girl was shot at a San Diego condominium after she stabbed a police officer within the chest, authorities mentioned.
After midnight in Bellflower, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies answering reviews of unlawful avenue racing had been approached by a person who mentioned he’d been stabbed by somebody with a backyard claw, the Sheriff’s Division mentioned. The sufferer identified the person, who ran off however was confronted close by. He then got here towards the deputies and was shot whereas swinging a 3-foot-long (0.9-meter) backyard claw with spikes on it, authorities mentioned.
The opposite man was handled on the scene.
In Anaheim round 10 p.m. Wednesday, a caller mentioned a person was threatening a girl and should have fired a gun, authorities mentioned. Officers discovered the lady unhurt however the 41-year-old man barricaded himself inside the house, Sgt. Shane Carringer mentioned.
Neighbors had been evacuated.
Police tried to speak to the person and persuade him to go away the house peacefully however he had a gun when he lastly got here to the door shortly earlier than 4 a.m., and police opened fireplace, Carringer mentioned.
In San Diego, police had been known as shortly after 12:30 p.m. to assist county sheriff’s deputies serving civil paperwork to a 47-year-old lady at condominium complicated within the Little Italy neighborhood, authorities mentioned.
A witness instructed KGTV-TV the paperwork was an eviction discover.
The officers had been met on the door by a girl holding a knife however she closed the door, and an worker on the complicated instructed officers she had threatened a upkeep employee with a knife the day past, police Capt. Matt Dobbs mentioned.
Authorities tried to speak to the lady for about 45 minutes with out success earlier than opening the door, at which level she stabbed a police canine handler within the chest with a big chef’s knife, Dobbs mentioned.
“It went instantly into his chest,” Dobbs mentioned.
Three sheriff’s deputies and a San Diego police officer opened fireplace, killing the lady. The wounded officer was handled at a hospital and launched, Dobbs mentioned.
He's doing “very, very nicely,” Police Chief David Nisleit mentioned.