Crime & Safety
LAPD Fatally Shoots Woman In Silver Lake Area
A woman allegedly armed with a pellet gun was shot and killed by LAPD officers at a Silver Lake homeless encampment, authorities say.
LOS ANGELES -- A woman allegedly armed with a pellet gun was shot and killed by Los Angeles Police Department officers at a homeless encampment in the Silver Lake area, authorities said today.
The shooting occurred at around 8 p.m. Wednesday near Sliver Lake Boulevard and the Temple Street overcrossing, the LAPD reported.
The woman, in her 40s, died at a hospital, police said. Information on her identity was not immediately available.
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According to police, officers went to the location, on a report that a woman was ``armed with a revolver and pointed it at a passerby.''
``When officers arrived on scene, they encountered the suspect ... who produced a handgun and pointed it in the officers' direction, at which point an officer-involved shooting occurred,'' police said in a statement. ``A CO2-powered revolver BB/Pellet Gun was recovered at (the) scene.''
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No officers were injured. The area where the woman was shot by officers is the site of a large homeless encampment.
-- City News Service
