Overview
- Deputies responded around 9:30 p.m. Thursday to the 8000 block of Alhambra Avenue after a caller reported her boyfriend was outside with a gun.
- LASD says deputies negotiated for more than 25 minutes to secure the release of a 2-year-old before the encounter escalated to gunfire near 9:59 p.m.
- The man was struck by deputies’ fire, taken to a hospital by paramedics, and later pronounced dead, according to the sheriff’s department.
- Officials say the toddler was unharmed and safe, and investigators have not released the suspect’s identity or the child’s relationship to him.
- The sheriff’s department reports the suspect used the child as a human shield, and detectives ask anyone with information to contact LASD Homicide or Crime Stoppers.