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NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a handgun at them when they were sent to a North Hollywood location to investigate an assault with a deadly weapon -- and where they found a person dead in a vehicle.
Officers went to the 12100 block of Victory Boulevard shortly before 5 a.m. on a call of an assault with a deadly weapon, according to Detective Meghan Aguilar of the Los Angeles Police Department.
According to Aguilar, when officers arrived, a suspect pointed a handgun at them, and the officers fired at the man, who ran north on Bellingham Avenue, in a neighborhood that is east of the Hollywood (170) Freeway.
Officers set up a perimeter in the area, and staged around a large parking structure, Aguilar said.
At some point, the suspect came out of the parking structure on the west side, and officers fired again, Aguilar said.
The suspect ran back into the structure and then tried to exit on the north side, still armed, and officers opened fire again, fatally wounding the man, who died at the scene, Aguilar said. Authorities recovered a handgun at the scene. It was unclear if the suspect fired at the officers.
Information was not available on the identities of the fatally wounded people, or on their relationship to one another, if any.
The California Highway Patrol closed the Victory Boulevard offramps from the northbound and southbound Hollywood (170) Freeway to accommodate the investigation into the shooting.