LAPD Officers Fatally Shoot Suspect in North Hollywood; Second Man Found Dead
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CNS) – Los Angeles police officers who responded to North Hollywood before sunrise Monday to investigate an assault with a deadly weapon shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a handgun at them, then found a man fatally shot in a vehicle.
Officers went to the 12100 block of Victory Boulevard, near Laurel Canyon Boulevard, around 4:50 a.m. Monday on a call of an assault with a deadly weapon, 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.
He was later identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner as Sean Griffin.
Following the fatal shooting, a man was found dead with a gunshot wound in vehicle in the parking lot, police said.
Information was not available on Griffin’s relationship to the man found dead in the vehicle, if any.
The fatal shooting 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.
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CNS-09-16-2024 22:10
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