LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say officers shot and killed a person brandishing what gave the impression to be a rifle on the street after a dispute together with his household in South Los Angeles.
Two officers responded Saturday afternoon following a home violence name at a house about 9 miles south of downtown LA, police mentioned.
The person, believed to be in his late teenagers or early 20s, got here out of the residence carrying a kind of rifle, in accordance with police.
No less than one officer opened hearth, hanging the person, who died on the scene, police mentioned.
Investigators later decided the person was holding a realistic-looking airsoft rifle, ABC 7 reported.
Officers didn’t launch particulars on the precise nature of the person’s confrontation with police or say whether or not each officers opened hearth.
No officers had been harm. The capturing is beneath investigation.