Overview

• The footage shows officers responding around 9 a.m. on July 13 to reports of a man blocking traffic and swinging a machete near Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard.
• Police say the suspect drove a black Dodge Challenger while waving the blade out the driver’s window, leading to a short pursuit that ended after a collision with a patrol SUV south of 12th Street.
• Dashcam and body-worn camera video depicts the driver exiting with the weapon and charging at officers after repeated commands to drop it.
• Officers fired, the man was transported to a hospital and later pronounced dead, and authorities reported no injuries to officers or bystanders.
• LAPD says a roughly two-foot machete was recovered and booked as evidence, and media reports identify the man as Gurpreet Singh and the officers as Michael Orozco and Nestor Espinoza Bojorquez.