A person whom police shot after he allegedly pointed a weapon at officers in South Los Angeles was hospitalized in vital situation, the Los Angeles Police Division announced Saturday night.
Simply earlier than 1 p.m. Thursday, police received a radio name for a potential assault with a lethal weapon close to 54th Avenue and Manhattan Place after a person reportedly pointed a handgun at an unidentified individual.
Officers from the LAPD’s 77th Avenue Group Police Station have been responding to an unrelated radio name about three blocks west, close to 54th Avenue and Gramercy Place, once they noticed a person strolling in Chesterfield Sq. Park and “acknowledged him because the potential suspect” of the assault with a lethal weapon name, the division mentioned in an announcement.
The LAPD recognized him as Jose Robles.
When officers spoke to Robles, he “didn’t adjust to officers’ instructions to drop the handgun he was holding” and pointed it at them, the assertion reads.
Police shot Robles, who “dropped the handgun, and fell to the bottom,” the assertion reads. He had a number of wounds.
Paramedics took Robles to a neighborhood hospital. Nobody else was injured.
A BB gun with a detachable journal was recovered on the scene, according to the LAPD statement, which mentioned it had “the looks of a semi-automatic pistol.”
The division’s Pressure Investigation Division is investigating the taking pictures. No additional particulars have been offered.
