Authorities Tuesday identified a man who was found dead in a vehicle after police officers fatally shot a man who allegedly pointed a firearm at them when they went to a location in North Hollywood on a report of an assault with deadly weapon.
Officers were sent to the 12100 block of Victory Boulevard, near Laurel Canyon Boulevard, around 4:50 a.m. Monday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
When officers were in the area of Victory Boulevard and Bellingham Avenue, they encountered the suspect who was armed with a firearm and pointed it at the officers, police said.
Officers exited their vehicle and officers fired at the man, Detective Meghan Aguilar said. The suspect ran north on Bellingham Avenue and officers established a perimeter. The suspect came out of the west side of a parking structure on St. Clair Avenue, south of Hamlin Street, and officers fired again, Aguilar said.
The suspect ran back into the structure and came to its north side of the structure, and officers opened fire again, fatally wounding the man, who died at the scene, Aguilar said. Authorities recovered a handgun at the scene. It was unclear if the suspect fired at the officers.
Authorities were working to find the man’s legal next of kin, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, which reported that the man was in his 30s.
Following the fatal shooting, a man was found dead with a gunshot wound in vehicle in the parking lot, police said.
“All evidence indicates the suspect from the OIS (the officer-involved shooting) is the homicide suspect,” according to an LAPD statement posted on X.
On Tuesday morning, the medical examiner’s office identified the man who was found dead in the vehicle as 32-year-old Joseph Tamburello, whose city of residence was not known.
Information was not available on the relationship between the suspect and Tamburello, if any.
The police investigation prompted the California Highway Patrol to close the Victory Boulevard off-ramps from the northbound and southbound Hollywood (170) Freeway. The off-ramps were re-opened later in the day.