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ELB LCD Officer Involved Shooting Stemmed From Suspect Allegedly Displaying Firearm...That Turned Out To Be This BB Gun

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(Nov. 12, 2021 on-scene breaking, followed by several updates) -- An officer-involved shooting on Los Coyotes Diagonal near Woodruff Ave. stemmed from a individual allegedly displaying a firearm...that turned out to be a BB gun (LBPD photo below.)


LBPD released photo

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An initial LBPD report was followed by the release text below.

[LBPD release text] On Nov. 12, 2021, at approximately 8:20 a.m., officers were dispatched to the area of Los Coyotes Diagonal and Woodruff Avenue regarding an unknown trouble call, which resulted in an officer involved shooting.

The first arriving officers located a man inside of a parked vehicle on Los Coyotes Diagonal near Woodruff Avenue. The man was holding what appeared to be a firearm.

Officers made several attempts to de-escalate the situation, as the suspect refused to put down the firearm. The suspect threatened to harm himself and then pointed the gun at officers, which resulted in one of the officers discharging their service weapon.

Officers immediately rendered aid until the Long Beach Fire Department arrived on the scene and transported the suspect to a local hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the upper body.

Leading up to this incident, Police Dispatch received several calls for service, stating a man was in the area waving around a knife and a gun. <

The preliminary investigation revealed the firearm was a CO2-powered BB gun—which was recovered at the scene.

All officers were equipped with body-worn cameras and the Department is in the process of reviewing the footage.

The suspect is identified as a 40-year-old man from Palmdale.

As with all officer-involved shooting incidents, the Department will be conducting a full and thorough multi-level review of the incident. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will conduct an independent investigation of the incident, as they do with all officer-involved shootings that result in injury or death.

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