An armed man holding a two-year-old toddler has died after he was shot in a standoff with sheriff\u2019s deputies Thursday in Paramount.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said deputies from its Lakewood station responded to a call regarding a man possibly armed with a gun. They arrived at the location on the 8000 block of Alhambra Avenue, where they encountered a man with a gun in one hand and the toddler in the other.<\/p>\n
The department said deputies spent 25 minutes attempting to negotiate with the man to release the toddler and relinquish the firearm.<\/p>\n
The man refused to comply and pointed the handgun at deputies. The deputies responded with gunfire, striking the man. His identity has not been released. <\/p>\n
Deputies safely removed the toddler from the scene. The boy, who was the man\u2019s son, according to investigators, was not harmed. <\/p>\n
The man received medical aid at the scene. The Los Angeles County Fire Department transported him to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed man holding a two-year-old toddler has died after he was shot in a standoff with sheriff\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47715,6236,7,9,8,6246,167,1790,47716,21803,63,1555,47717,6336,2489,2637,6770,41603],"class_list":["post-84577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-alhambra-avenue","tag-block","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-department","tag-deputy","tag-gun","tag-lakewood-station","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-man","tag-medical-aid","tag-paramount","tag-scene","tag-sheriff","tag-standoff","tag-toddler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84577","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=84577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}