L.A. police officers shot a man on Tuesday near an East Hollywood Metro station. Before that confrontation, officials said he assaulted a woman and stabbed a man.
L.A. police officers shot a man Tuesday near an East Hollywood Metro station. Before the confrontation, officials said Wednesday, the suspect assaulted a 74-year-old woman and stabbed a man while officers were giving chase.
About 9:40 a.m. Tuesday at the Vermont/Beverly Metro station, an 18-year-old man informed LAPD transit police that a man had brandished a knife at him, police officials said.The man showed cellphone images of the suspect to police and told them the direction in which he’d run. Swenor ran to a higher level, where he hit a 74-year-old woman in the head with an unknown object, the LAPD said.Officers shot and wounded a man suspected of stabbing another man as he fled an altercation with a woman on the Red Line train platform, the LAPD said.
Video taken by a resident of the area and obtained by KTLA-TV Channel 5 showed police surrounding the suspect in the parking lot. Swenor can be seen dropping an object as he attempts to hide behind a car.The LAPD said Swenor “charged at one of the officers.”
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