A Santa Monica police officer shot and killed an armed person Saturday afternoon in Palisades Park, city officials said.<\/p>\n
Police said the shooting took place after officers arrived at the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue to respond to a reported domestic violence incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile officers were interviewing witnesses, an unrelated individual armed with a knife charged at the officers,\u201d a police statement said. \u201cAn officer discharged their firearm, striking the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said Santa Monica Fire Department workers gave medical care to the person who was shot, who then was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The officer was not injured.<\/p>\n
Police said the scene was still active Saturday afternoon as investigators collected evidence and conducted a preliminary investigation. Law enforcement asked the public to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
Police have not released the name of the person who died or more information about them, or what they believe led the person to charge at the officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Santa Monica police officer shot and killed an armed person Saturday afternoon in Palisades Park, city officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[174726,88620,7,9,8,20386,4744,3816,734,16279,2322,10461,1410,236,13214,174725,135,174724],"class_list":["post-440829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-active-saturday-afternoon","tag-armed-person","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-city-official","tag-evidence","tag-investigator","tag-law-enforcement","tag-ocean-avenue","tag-officer","tag-palisades-park","tag-place","tag-police","tag-preliminary-investigation","tag-santa-monica-park","tag-shooting","tag-unrelated-individual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440829","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=440829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}