LAPD Shoots Suspect Near Van Nuys, Police Continue Investigation

VAN NUYS, CA — Los Angeles police on Saturday were investigating the officer-involved shooting of a man who authorities believe threatened his wife's family before traveling to her workplace with a handgun.

Police responded at 10:40 a.m. Friday morning to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon suspect. Upon their arrival, a family member of the man's wife told officers that the woman's estranged husband "showed up at the residence brandishing a handgun and threatening to kill them," but left before police arrived, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.

Officers found the man near his wife's workplace in a parking lot where he sat inside a vehicle that matched the description officers were given. After he was ordered out of the vehicle, he brandished a handgun, police said.

"At that time, there was an officer-involved shooting," officials said.

The man was shot and taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition, police said. No officers were injured.

The shooting occurred at 10:47 a.m. in the 7300 block of Aldea Avenue, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Drake Madison. The location is a quiet residential row of single-family homes.

Police recovered a handgun, but "what exactly he did with that handgun that led to the officer-involved shooting is part of the investigation," Meghan Aguilar, detective and department spokeswoman told reporters at the scene.

Aguilar said investigators would be looking at body-worn camera video and seeking surveillance footage, as well as interviewing the officers involved and witnesses.

It is unknown whether the officers' body cameras "were activated, if it was a timely activation, and what they show," Aguilar said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The City News Service and Patch staffers Paige Austin and Kat Schuster contributed to this report.