A man waving a machete in the middle of a Los Angeles street was reportedly shot by police officers Sunday morning on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.
Officers were dispatched at 9:14 a.m. Sunday to the area of Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard after reports of a man in the street waving a machete and chanting, according to Officer Norma Eisenman, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
“It seems he may have been waving the machete at a security guard,” she told City News Service.
The suspect was described as a man wearing a gray shirt, brown shorts and sandals, she added.
Police announced shortly after 9:30 a.m. that Figueroa between 12th Street and Pico Boulevard would be closed for the rest of the day due to a “police incident.”
No further information was immediately available.