A suspect who was fatally shot by police in downtown Los Angeles and the woman he is suspected of killing were identified Thursday by authorities.
Police still have yet to disclose their findings after they processed the crime scene of a downtown Los Angeles apartment complex, where the body of 32-year-old Lisa Ramirez of Pico Rivera was found on Tuesday, but she is believed to be the victim of a man who was fatally shot by police about a block away.
The officer-involved shooting happened at 4:50 p.m. Tuesday in the area of 11th and Hope streets, according to Capt. Andy Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Department. Neiman said the suspect, identified by the county coroner’s office as 32-year-old Michael Rogers of Los Angeles, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police had earlier reported that an unresponsive man was down at the scene and an ambulance had been requested.
Officers with the LAPD’s Central Traffic Division were flagged down and “directed to an individual,” at which time an officer-involved shooting occurred, Neiman said.
“There were reports he was possibly armed with a knife,” but that could not be immediately confirmed, the captain said.
Soon after the shooting, someone approached police to inform them there was possibly a body in a residential complex in the 1100 block of Flower Street, within a block of the shooting scene, Neiman said.
Officers investigated and found Ramirez’s body.
“She was obviously the victim of a homicide based on the crime scene,” Neiman said. “We don’t know if there’s a connection (to the fatally wounded suspect) but we are certainly looking at that as a possibility.”
—City News Service