CLAREMONT, Calif. (KABC) — A suspect with a knife was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during a theft investigation at a gas station in Claremont Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at about 9:40 a.m. at a gas station in the 800 block of South Indian Hill Boulevard, just off the 10 Freeway.<\/p>\n
Deputies were carrying out a court-ordered eviction nearby when they were alerted of a theft happening at the Chevron gas station next door by customer, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff’s Department said that as deputies approached to investigate, the suspect ran out of the store and charged them with a knife.<\/p>\n
Deputies opened fire, fatally striking the suspect. They described the man as being in his 30s or 40s. The suspect has not been identified.<\/p>\n
A large kitchen knife was recovered from the scene, the sheriff’s department said.<\/p>\n
No deputies were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
No further details were immediately known. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those wishing to remain anonymous may call “Crime Stoppers” at (800) 222-8477, or by using the website http:\/\/lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAREMONT, Calif. (KABC) — A suspect with a knife was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[185383,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-471365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-185383","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\/471365","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=471365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}