{"id":122469,"date":"2026-01-06T18:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:54:17","slug":"armed-man-holding-child-shot-by-deputies-in-paramount-bodycam-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122469\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed man holding child shot by deputies in Paramount, bodycam video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PARAMOUNT, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; Dramatic new body camera video captured the tense standoff between an armed man holding a child and Los Angeles County sheriff&#8217;s deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident last month as deputies with the Lakewood Sheriff&#8217;s station responded to Alhambra Avenue in Paramount for calls of a man with a firearm who was making threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Newly-released footage shows deputies taking cover as they encountered 35-year-old Marcos Alfonso, who held a firearm in one hand and his 2-year-old son in his other arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, deputies and a mental evaluation team spent 25 minutes attempting to de-escalate the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Alfonso repeatedly urged them to open fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One deputy discharged his rifle when Alfonso pointed a gun in the direction of deputies, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The child was not hurt, but Alfonso was hit by the gunfire and died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARAMOUNT, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Dramatic new body camera video captured the tense standoff between an armed man holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64210,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-122469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-64210","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122469","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=122469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}