Overview
- The shooting that occurred in a Cerritos shopping-center restaurant on Sunday left a man armed with a knife dead after deputies answered a 2:12 p.m. call.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed deputies and homicide detectives have the Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que scene secured and are interviewing employees and patrons.
- An LASD source and eyewitnesses told reporters a person with a concealed-carry permit shot the knife-wielding man and an off-duty officer witnessed the event but did not fire, and those specific details remain unverified by public statement.
- CBS Los Angeles reported a separate crash outside a nearby Starbucks is being examined as connected to the investigation, though officials have provided few details about that link.
- Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact the LASD Homicide Bureau and the incident has heightened local concerns about bystander safety in busy shopping-center restaurants.