A suspect was fatally shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers Friday after a foot pursuit in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Westmont.
LAPD officers from the department’s Southeast Division responded to a shots fired call at 12:58 a.m. Friday at the intersection of West 115th Street and South Vermont Avenue. Officers found a man said to be in his 40s at a Mobil gas station suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The suspect was located but ran away from the officers. They caught up to him at 111th Street and Van Buren Avenue, where an officer opened fire at the suspect, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.
The suspect was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel. No officers were injured.
It was not known who initiated the gunfire or if the suspect who was shot was involved in the gas station shooting.