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Los Angeles Police Department officers shot and killed a man allegedly armed with a knife in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles Wednesday night.
A few minutes after 8 p.m., police received multiple calls about a man armed with a knife in the 1200 block of South New Hampshire Avenue, according to Sgt. Hector Guzman of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When officers arrived, they found the man in a parking lot and fired at him, hitting him at least once, police said.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A large knife was recovered at the scene, Guzman said.
“No officers or bystanders were injured during the incident,” police said on X, formerly Twitter.
The investigation is ongoing.
