{"id":262580,"date":"2026-04-11T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:52:19","slug":"one-person-killed-after-a-police-chase-on-the-5-freeway-in-east-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262580\/","title":{"rendered":"One person killed after a police chase on the 5 Freeway in East L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person was killed after a pursuit on the 5 Freeway ended in an officer-involved shooting, LAPD officials confirmed to KTLA-TV Channel 5. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Police Department officers began pursuing a motorist around 9:50 a.m. Wednesday near 7th Street and Towne Avenue and ended at the Olympic Boulevard off-ramp of the 5, LAPD officer Charles Miller said. <\/p>\n<p>Officers got into a shootout with the motorist but details on the incident weren\u2019t immediately available,  Miller said. <\/p>\n<p>A black BMW was <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/police-pursuit-ends-with-officer-involved-shooting-on-5-freeway-in-east-l-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seen stopped<\/a> along the off-ramp with bullet holes through its windows, KTLA reported. A person was seen being treated by first responders at the scene but authorities did not disclose who was injured or the extent of those injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was killed after a pursuit on the 5 Freeway ended in an officer-involved shooting, LAPD officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5252,2640,115335,853,24746,5154,4407,48,52,51,115334,55815,47,50,49,7656,13364,115336,18498,2131,115337],"class_list":{"0":"post-262580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-7th-street","9":"tag-a-m","10":"tag-bullet-hole","11":"tag-detail","12":"tag-east-l-a","13":"tag-freeway","14":"tag-ktla","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-lapd-officer-charles-miller","19":"tag-lapd-official","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-person","24":"tag-police-chase","25":"tag-police-officer-involved-shooting","26":"tag-shootout","27":"tag-suspect","28":"tag-towne-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262580","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=262580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}