A woman shot a man to death who violated a restraining order and went to her Monrovia home armed with knives to stab her and another man, authorities said Sunday.
The shooting occurred shortly after 9 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of South Shamrock Avenue, a few blocks south of Foothill Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Officers from the Monrovia Police Department responded to the scene after a woman phoned dispatchers saying a man with a restraining order on him was at her home and armed with a knife. Arriving officers found a man dead with a gunshot wound. He was described only as an Asian male adult.
Sheriff’s officials said an investigation revealed that the man went to the home to stab the woman and another man, “and to stop the threat the white female adult discharged a firearm.”
“The female adult and male adult provided voluntary statements and were not arrested,” the department added.
A firearm and several knives allegedly were recovered at the scene.
The case was turned over to the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau for investigation.