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(Sept. 21, 2021, updating previous at 4:50 a.m.) -- As flashed on LBREPORT.com's Facebook platform on Monday afternoon Sept. 20, a Signal Hill police officer shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect in the 1000 block of E. Willow St. following a stabbing outside a grocery store in the 1600 block of E. Willow St.
LASD, assisting SHPD in investigating what occurred, said in a Sept. 20 evening statement that the stabbing wounded a man (adult); a SHPD officer spotted the suspected stabber a few blocks west on Willow St.; the officer tried to detain the suspect who allegedly continued to flee, produced a large knife and allegedly attacked the SHPD officer. An officer-involved shooting followed. The suspect, described as a Hispanic man (adult), was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The officer was uninjured. A large knife was recovered at the scene. East Willow St. was blocked for hours between California and Walnut Aves. for the joint LASD/SHPD investigation.
[LASD Sept 20 statement] -- The L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. is assisting SHPD in the investigation and issued the following statement Further as we learn it. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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