Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau detectives are en route to the 400 block of Atlantic Boulevard, Monterey Park, to assist with a Monterey Park Police Department officer-involved hit shooting investigation.
One male adult suspect was struck by the officer’s gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured. There is no additional information available at this time.
Whenever an Officer-Involved Shooting occurs, and it results in a fatality of a suspect, multiple independent investigations immediately begin at the scene. These include separate investigations by the Offices of the L.A. Co. District Attorney and the L.A. Co. Coroner, in addition to Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call “Crime Stoppers” by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), or texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.
–Source Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
