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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police said officers yesterday shot dead a driver wearing body armour who had reversed into a patrol car in Hollywood.
The officers were responding to a call when a car pulled in front of them on Sunset Boulevard, hit the brakes and backed into their vehicle, the LA Police Department tweeted yesterday.
“The driver of the car exited, was wearing body armour, and had his right hand concealed behind him,” LAPD tweeted.
There has been an Officer-Involved Shooting on Sunset Bl nesr Fairfax in Hollywood Division. Around 2:35 p.m. ofcrs were heading to a radio call w/ their lights & sirens on when a car pulled in front of them, stopped suddenly & reversed into the police car.
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) April 25, 2021
“He moved toward the (officers) who had exited their patrol car. He counted ‘3, 2, 1’ and began to move his arm to the front of his body, at which time there was an OIS (officer-involved shooting).”
The man was hit by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Famed Sunset Boulevard was temporarily blocked off to traffic. A body covered in a white sheet was lying on the road next to a black vehicle with a shattered driver’s side window, photographs of the scene showed.
Force Investigation Division detectives, who investigate police-related shootings, were at the scene conducting interviews and gathering evidence, LAPD said. – AFP, April 25, 2021
