South Gate police shoot, kill man; Sheriff’s Department investigating
A man was shot and killed by police responding to a domestic dispute in South Gate late Saturday, according to authorities.
The shooting occurred in the 9200 block of San Luis Avenue shortly after 10 p.m., according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the incident.
South Gate police responded to a 911 call that a man and woman were fighting, according to the sheriff’s statement. Officers said when they arrived at the scene, the man was uncooperative and ran away.
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The man was “continually grasping at his waistband area†while running, according to the sheriff’s statement. When he turned back around to face the officers, police shot him, fearing he had a gun.
A spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department said a weapon was recovered from the man, but she didn’t say what kind of weapon it was.
The man, whose name has not been released, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Saturday’s incident is the 288th officer-involved shooting in Los Angeles County since 2007, according to the Times’ Homicide Report, an interactive database of all homicides in Los Angeles County.
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