Lengthy Seashore police stated Monday that an individual killed throughout a standoff with officers final month was a 17-year-old boy.
On the evening of April 26, police have been known as to a house within the 6800 block of Cerritos Avenue, the place a male with a gun was reported to have damaged in and demanded gadgets from a minor and two adults inside, the Lengthy Seashore Police Division stated in an announcement.
The suspect, discovered within the yard of the residence, was believed to be armed, police stated.
“Officers engaged in verbal de-escalation for over an hour as they tried to barter the suspect’s give up,” the assertion reads.
A duplicate firearm was recovered by Lengthy Seashore police on the scene of a deadly police taking pictures of a 17-year-old boy.
(Lengthy Seashore Police Division)
A SWAT workforce had been known as in and was “on scene and making ready to deploy” when an officer shot the boy, based on police.
The teenager was struck as soon as within the higher physique. He died at an area hospital.
Officers recovered a duplicate firearm from the scene, the police assertion stated.
{The teenager} was from San Bernardino. His title was not launched.
Officers wore physique cameras, and the Police Division will make video obtainable to the general public after it’s reviewed, the division stated.
On Monday, the Police Division stated detectives had discovered there was “an confederate” within the residence invasion who fled earlier than officers arrived.
Iskay Mota, 18, of Modesto, was arrested Wednesday and transported to the Lengthy Seashore metropolis jail, the place he was booked on suspicion of theft and held on $100,000 bail, based on police and Los Angeles County inmate data.
The taking pictures is being investigated by the California Division of Justice, which independently probes all deadly police shootings of unarmed civilians.
