Los Angeles police shoot man apparently firing gun on busy street

Police in Los Angeles shot and killed a man who was apparently brandishing a handgun and firing shots into the air on a busy street, authorities said on Friday. Police were called to a stretch of Ventura Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in the San Fernando Valley, after receiving reports of a man firing a gun on Friday afternoon while the area was packed with cars and shoppers, Los Angeles police said in a brief statement on social media. Officers tried to engage the man and told him repeatedly to drop his gun before opening fire and killing him, police said.

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