Overview
- The victim was identified by Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and on social media as Keith “Pooter” Porter Jr., and mourners held a candlelight vigil Sunday outside the Village Pointe apartments.
- Homeland Security said the off-duty agent confronted an active shooter, exchanged gunfire, was uninjured, and called LAPD after the incident.
- Civil-rights leaders dispute the active-shooter characterization and are urging the California attorney general to take over the case and to release body-camera footage, ballistic evidence, and witness statements.
- LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division is leading the probe with FBI, DOJ, and Homeland Security Investigations involved, and detectives have not yet interviewed the federal agent under existing protocols.
- Neighbors reported stray rounds and some witnesses said Porter had been firing into the air, while police noted it was too early to determine that; officers were dispatched at 11:37 p.m. on Dec. 31.