Authorities Thursday identified a man who was killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Lancaster over the weekend.
Richard Lugo, 36, was shot about 4:20 p.m. Sunday near the 1100 block of West Avenue I and died at a hospital, according to the coroner’s office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His home town was not known.
Deputies went to the location on a report of a man with a gun, said Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
“They attempted to contact him and he fled on foot,” Koerner said. “They chased him and a deputy-involved shooting occurred.”
No deputies were injured, Koerner said. A news videographer at the scene said the shooting occurred in an alley behind a Dollar Tree store.