Deputies Kill Man Who Allegedly Opened Fire
- Share via
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies attempting to serve an arrest warrant Friday morning at a house in a remote location near Sylmar shot and killed a man who deputies said stepped out of the house and opened fire on them.
The shooting occurred about 7:15 a.m., but the man’s body remained in front of the house until about 12:30 p.m. because deputies believed a second armed man was in the house.
It was not known if the man died immediately or during the more than five hours it took to determine that a second suspect was not in the house, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.
Friday night, the house burst into flames but it was not known if the fire was related to the earlier incident, officials said.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
