{"id":418004,"date":"2026-07-30T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:43:12","slug":"lapd-fatally-shoots-man-swinging-bat-at-cars-near-freeway-onramp-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418004\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD fatally shoots man swinging bat at cars near freeway onramp, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles police shot and killed a man who was swinging a bat at cars near a freeway onramp  Wednesday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>About 6:30 p.m., police started to receive reports that a man with a bat was threatening pedestrians with it and hitting occupied vehicles near Normandie Avenue and Washington Boulevard, the Los Angeles Police Department <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/2082661997800513850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted on X. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the time officers arrived in the area, the man had moved south on Normandie Avenue and officers found him at the 10 freeway underpass, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen officers arrived to the area, they encountered the suspect, armed with the bat,\u201d and fatally shot him, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Police did not provide any additional details on why they opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, paramedics arrived and rushed the man to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s identity was not immediately available. No one else was injured in the shooting and the bat was booked into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the shooting is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police shot and killed a man who was swinging a bat at cars near a freeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[599,27971,7,9,8,283,167209,5015,8980,63,1555,58289,3335,10105,236,135,163106,148231],"class_list":["post-418004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-area","tag-bat","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-car","tag-freeway-onramp","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles-police","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-man","tag-normandie-avenue","tag-official","tag-paramedic","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-time-officer","tag-washington-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418004","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=418004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}