Entries from LAist tagged with 'officerinvolvedshooting'
September 10, 2008
The Inglewood Police are keeping silent about their city council's revelation yesterday that an August 31 incident involving officers fatally shooting a homeless man was recorded on tape and in the hands of the City. According to cbs2.com, the council released a written statement regarding the video, which allegedly shows "seven officers [who] fired a combined 47 times" at "a homeless man carrying a toy gun." A total of eight Inglewood police officers were put......
Continue Reading "Caught on Tape (Times Two)"September 1, 2008
Since May, officer involved shootings in Inglewood have left four people dead. The latest was Sunday afternoon when police were called to a report of a homeless man with a gun, which ended up being a replica silver handgun, according to the LA Times. After police tried to subdue the man with a beanbag gun, they say that the man reached for his waistband where the gun was when they shot him to death as......
Continue Reading "Inglewood Police Shoot & Kill 4th Person"August 28, 2008
Details have finally been pieced together after yesterdays officer involved shooting at Sunset and Vermont yesterday after a robbery at a LG Electronics store. When police arrived, a foot chase ensued leading to an officer, who was "slashed in the head with a knife" by one of the robbery suspects, shooting off two rounds. One hit the suspect injuring him and another hit the windshield of a route 240 Metro Bus. Initial reports from police......
Continue Reading "About that Incident at Sunset/Vermont Yesterday"August 27, 2008
Update, 2:40 p.m.: According to Officer Diaz per KNX1070, the suspect hit one of the officers twice in the head with the butt of a knife. The other officer fired a couple shots with one apparently entering a Metro bus slightly injuring one passenger. The other shot hit suspect who was brought to hospital in stable condition. This was at the Southeast corner of Sunset and Vermont.Both the LAPD and the LA Fire Department are......
Continue Reading "LAPD Shooting at Sunset & Vermont, Streets Closed"August 6, 2008
Yesterday morning, it was Encino. Last night, it was Santa Ana when a man who was told by police to leave an area got involved in a struggle with officers. He tried to grab a gun from one officer's holster when the another officer shot him dead, according to police. Several officers had minor injuries.......
Continue Reading "Officer Involved Shooting in Santa Ana"July 31, 2008
On Wednesday after midnight an off-duty LAPD officer was shot by Long Beach Police after calls came in that a man was wandering down a street with a gun. Sources within the department told the Press-Telegram that friends of shot officer told LBPD he had been drinking heavily before he wandered off. The paper also says unamed officers described the gun as either a "large shotgun or a pellet gun with a light on the......
Continue Reading "Shot LAPD Officer in Long Beach May Have Been Drunk"July 30, 2008
An off-duty LAPD Officer was shot early this morning around 12:30 a.m. by Long Beach Police responding to a "person with a gun" call. Few details about what led officers to shoot have come out so far as Long Beach officials are only saying that when officers contacted the suspect, the shooting occurred. 26-year-old Officer Jason Geggie, a one and a half year veteran of the force assigned to the Central Traffic Division, was booked......
Continue Reading "Long Beach Police Shoot LAPD Officer"July 11, 2008
Around 6:00 a.m., two suspects who earlier robbed a restaurant in Beverly Hills were pulled over at South Fairfaix, San Vicente and Olympic boulevards, prompting an officer involved shooting. Officers from a special undercover unit had witnessed the Beverly Hills robbery and followed the suspects in a truck to where they pulled them over, according to the LA Times, who say these officers were from a controversial unit called the Special Investigation Section. A few......
Continue Reading "Police Shooting at Fairfax/San Vicente Shuts Streets Down"