Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of an armed man at a shopping mall in South Los Angeles Monday morning.
Some of the businesses at the shopping center were evacuated after a man, reported to be between 30-40 years old, was said to be holding a sharp object.
Police responded to the call at around 7:30 a.m. at the 5800 block of Vermont Avenue.
Augustus Hawkins High School is adjacent to the shopping center, but it was not immediately clear if the school was on lockdown.
Authorities later took the man into custody.