{"id":427648,"date":"2026-08-08T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427648\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:16:20","slug":"downey-police-officer-shoots-kills-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427648\/","title":{"rendered":"Downey police officer shoots, kills man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An officer with the Downey Police Department shot and killed a man on Saturday morning, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/12585615\/?sub_id=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">news release<\/a>, the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said its deputies responded to the 11800 block of Downey Avenue on reports of an officer-involved shooting at about 7:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, deputies learned that an officer shot a suspect. The suspect, identified only as a man, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No law enforcement officers were harmed. It&#8217;s not yet clear if the man was armed, and if so, if he shot first.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining circumstances are unclear, and authorities didn&#8217;t specify what the initial call was for.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An officer with the Downey Police Department shot and killed a man on Saturday morning, according to authorities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-427648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427648","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=427648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}