An armed suspect was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies in Paramount after pointing his gun at them during a standoff, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday, deputies from the Lakewood Sheriff\u2019s Station responded to the 8000 block of Alhambra Avenue, near Paramount Boulevard, in Paramount after receiving a report of a man possibly armed with a gun, authorities said.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, deputies found a man on the porch holding a handgun in one hand and a 2-year-old toddler in the other.<\/p>\n
For more than 25 minutes, deputies tried to persuade the man to release the toddler and relinquish the firearm, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n
The suspect refused and eventually pointed the gun at deputies, prompting a deputy-involved shooting.<\/p>\n
The man was struck and fell to the ground. The toddler was removed safely and found unharmed, according to sheriff\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n
Investigators later confirmed that the child was the man\u2019s son. Deputies rendered medical aid until Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics arrived, treated the man, and took him to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
NBC 4 reported that the suspect\u2019s girlfriend had contacted deputies before the shooting to report that he was armed. It was not immediately known what prompted the shooting.<\/p>\n
No deputies were injured.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call the Sheriff\u2019s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed suspect was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies in Paramount after pointing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[41668,723,12145,410,131,133,132,6336,12581,47379,2131,77],"class_list":["post-83684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-armed","tag-crime","tag-deputies","tag-fatally","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-paramount","tag-sheriffs","tag-shoot","tag-suspect","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83684","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=83684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}