Deputies fatally shot a man outside an East Los Angeles business Saturday evening.
The chain of events started at 9:20 p.m. Saturday when deputies were summoned to the area of Gage and Eastman avenues and Pomeroy Street, where a man was reported harassing customers with a metal stick, Dep. Tracy Koerner told City News Service.
The deputies made contact with the suspect and shot him at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Koerner said.
The man died at the scene, Koerner said.
The circumstances leading up to the shooting were under investigation, he said.