A Gardena police officer shot and killed a man Friday night after the man opened fire at law enforcement during a traffic stop, according to the Gardena Police Department.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened after an officer performed a traffic stop on a driver just after 11 p.m. Friday on the 2100 block of West Rosecrans Avenue. Police said the officer noticed a firearm within the driver\u2019s reach and made multiple commands to the man to not reach for the weapon.<\/p>\n
Gardena police said the man ignored those commands, exited the vehicle armed with the firearm and fired at officers. Officers then fired back and struck the man, officials said.<\/p>\n
Emergency aid was rendered to the man by officers and then by paramedics after they arrived. The man was then taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries. A handgun was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police did not release the name of the man who was killed nor of the officer who shot him. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gardena police officer shot and killed a man Friday night after the man opened fire at law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[33071,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-485426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-gardena","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\/485426","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=485426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}