{"id":2554,"date":"2008-09-01T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:25:00","slug":"homeless-man-shot-and-killed-by-police-officer-in-inglewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Man Shot And Killed By Police Officer In Inglewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen allowTransparency=\"true\" class=\"vzaar-video-player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"336\" id=\"vzvd-1194108\" mozallowfullscreen name=\"vzvd-1194108\" src=\"http:\/\/view.vzaar.com\/1194108\/player\" title=\"vzaar video player\" type=\"text\/html\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"448\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Multiple investigations were under way today into a fatal officer-involved shooting of a homeless man &#8212; the fourth shooting involving Inglewood police officers in as many months, a lieutenant said.<br \/>\nOfficers responded to a report of a man with a gun in the 400 block of South Market Street, near Hillcrest Boulevard, at 1:47 p.m. Sunday, said Inglewood police Lt. Gabriela Garcia.<br \/>\nThe officers found two men, one of whom had what appeared to be a chrome handgun tucked into his waistband, and told them to put up their hands, Garcia said.<br \/>\nOne of the men complied and was detained. The other man refused, so officers used a &#8220;less lethal&#8221; weapon that was ineffective, she said.<br \/>\nThe man allegedly reached for his waistband, and the officers &#8220;engaged the subject, resulting in an officer-involved shooting,&#8221; Garcia said.<br \/>\nOfficers later determined the apparent gun was a toy, she said.<br \/>\nThe man was taken to UCLA Medical Center and pronounced dead at 2:50 p.m., said Investigator Jerry McKibben of the Los Angeles County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<br \/>\nA witness said the man appeared to be a threat.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m on the phone with a customer, taking a call &#8212; an order at the window, and I see a guy with no shirt pushing a shopping cart with a magnum- type gun, you know, in his waistband, so I didn&#8217;t know what he could do or what he was capable of doing, and I don&#8217;t think the police knew,&#8221; Rodney Phillips told Fox11.<br \/>\nPhillips said he saw police talking with the man and then heard about nine shots.<br \/>\nStreets in the vicinity of the shooting were shut down during the investigation, according to a Channel 11 reporter, who said she counted about 60 evidence markers.<br \/>\nThe Inglewood Police Department is conducting separate criminal and administrative investigations of the shooting, and the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office is conducting its investigation, Garcia said.<br \/>\nA representative from the county Office of Independent Review was also involved in the investigations, she added.<br \/>\nThe police department is already under investigation by the county office and is facing a $25 million civil lawsuit in connection with earlier officer-involved shootings.<br \/>\nTwo Inglewood officers involved in a May 11 shooting in which 19-year- old Michael Byoune was killed and two others wounded at a restaurant near Crenshaw Boulevard and 85th Street were returned to active duty by Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks.<br \/>\nOn July 1, Ruben Walton Ortega, a 23-year-old alleged gang member, was fatally shot by Inglewood police.<br \/>\nKevin Wicks, 38, was shot to death by Inglewood police Officer Brian Ragan at about 12:20 a.m. July 21 after four officers went to his door in response to a report of an argument involving a man and two women.<br \/>\nInglewood police said Wicks, a 19-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service in West Los Angeles, answered the door with a gun in his hand and raised it toward the officers, prompting the gunfire.<br \/>\nBut relatives and community activists said officers responded to the wrong apartment and that if Wicks was holding a gun, it was likely only for his safety since he lived in a dangerous neighborhood and was responding to a knock on his door around midnight.<br \/>\nAdding to the outrage over Wicks&#8217; death was the fact that Ragan, a five- year department veteran, was one of the officers involved in the May 11 shooting of Byoune.<br \/>\nWicks&#8217; daughter and mother announced plans to file a $25 million claim against Inglewood.<br \/>\nPolice Chief Seabrooks said a full probe of the Wicks shooting would be done.<br \/>\nFollowing calls from community activists for a thorough review of the department&#8217;s policies, the Inglewood City Council voted to have the county Office of Independent Review, an agency created to provide investigative oversight of the Sheriff&#8217;s Department, to conduct a probe of the department.<br \/>\nRep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General calling for a federal investigation into the department.<br \/>\nAnyone with information about the latest shooting was asked to call Inglewood police at (310) 412-5246 or the anonymous hotline at (888) 41-CRIME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen allowTransparency=\"true\" class=\"vzaar-video-player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"336\" id=\"vzvd-1194108\" mozallowfullscreen name=\"vzvd-1194108\" src=\"http:\/\/view.vzaar.com\/1194108\/player\" title=\"vzaar video player\" type=\"text\/html\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"448\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Multiple investigations were under way today into a fatal officer-involved shooting of a homeless man &#8212; the fourth shooting involving Inglewood police officers in as many months, a lieutenant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-stories","tag-national-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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