Police shoot, kill suspect in Downtown LA hostage rescue caught on Twitter

A Los Angeles Police serviceman changeable and killed a antheral who took a pistillate hostage successful a downtown Los Angeles high-rise flat and were capable to rescue her.

“Based connected the already incredibly convulsive actions and fearing the fishy was going to termination the hostage, SWAT entered the apartment,” LAPD officials tweeted precocious Friday. An serviceman changeable the suspect, who was “struck by gunfire and … died astatine scene.”

The sanction of the fishy volition beryllium released pending notification of family, according to the coroner’s office.

The pistillate was taken to a infirmary successful chartless condition.

LAPD Detective Meghan Aguilar told reporters that anterior to the hostage situation, the fishy changeable randomly astatine a radical of radical during what mightiness person been a robbery and wounded a 14-year-old boy, who was grazed successful the limb by a bullet.

Aguilar said the lad was taken to a infirmary with non-life threatening injuries.

He besides accosted a pistillate connected the street, enactment a weapon to her caput and pulled the trigger, Aguilar said.

“Luckily, the weapon did not spell off,” Aguilar said.

Police responded astatine astir 4:10 p.m. Friday to the flat successful the 500 artifact of South Main Street connected reports of a shooting, constabulary said.

The fishy barricaded himself and the hostage wrong the flat and SWAT officers were called to the scene.

Video taken by a Twitter idiosyncratic who was successful a gathering adjacent the high-rise showed the antheral holding a weapon to the hostage’s caput and dragging her to antithetic areas of the flat earlier respective constabulary officers equipped with tactical cogwheel entered the room. Several gunshots are heard earlier the video ends.