Additional details were released Friday about a domestic violence suspect who was shot to death by police as he allegedly tried to disarm officers in San Pedro.<\/p>\n
Two officers were injured during the confrontation that began at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday when officers from the Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Harbor Division were called to an apartment in the 500 block of West 37th Street, near South Pacific Avenue, regarding a domestic violence situation and restraining order violation, according to the LAPD.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon arrival, officers met with the victim, who advised the officers that the suspect, later identified as 39-year-old Lawrence Gonzales, was inside her apartment,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Officers encountered Gonzalez inside the apartment and tried to detain him, according to the LAPD.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez \u201crefused to comply with the officers\u2019 command to turn around and place his hands behind his back,\u201d police stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officers approached Gonzales, who physically resisted their efforts to detain him,\u201d according to the LAPD. \u201cThe physical resistance escalated into a violent confrontation where Gonzales attempted to disarm the officers, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police did not disclose how many officers opened fire, nor how many shots were discharged.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Fire Department personnel took Gonzalez to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth officers received bruises, cuts and scrapes from this incident and were transported to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
The shooting is under internal LAPD investigation along with the California Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional details were released Friday about a domestic violence suspect who was shot to death by police as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16490,169,131,133,132,35342,21088,236],"class_list":["post-117701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-confrontation","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-officers","tag-pedro","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}