{"id":80378,"date":"2025-12-03T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80378\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:45:08","slug":"fight-between-father-and-son-ends-with-both-dead-in-lake-balboa-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80378\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight between father and son ends with both dead in Lake Balboa home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two people are dead after reports of a son fighting his father ended with police officers forcing their way inside a Lake Balboa home and opening fire to stop the attack Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in the 17000 block of Valerio Street at about 8:30 a.m. after police received reports of a male suffering from a mental illness and an adult son fighting his father, said Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Michael Bland.<\/p>\n<p>The first officers to arrive at the home heard sounds from inside that sounded like a struggle, so they forced their way in, Bland said.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, officers said they saw a suspect assaulting a victim and opened fire, fatally striking the suspect, Bland said. The victim, who was suffering from stab wounds, also died.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attempted to render aid to both people until paramedics arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of scissors found at the scene were booked as evidence. No officers were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after reports of a son fighting his father ended with police officers forcing their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2640,6236,7,9,8,6314,46029,46030,32477,46031,10105,592,2325,3729,7756,2131,2601,8843],"class_list":{"0":"post-80378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-a-m","9":"tag-block","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-father","14":"tag-first-officer","15":"tag-lake-balboa-home","16":"tag-michael-bland","17":"tag-opening-fire","18":"tag-paramedic","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-police-officer","21":"tag-report","22":"tag-son","23":"tag-suspect","24":"tag-victim","25":"tag-way"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80378","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=80378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}