The Contra Costa Times
LOS ANGELES — A man who threatened to shoot firefighters sent to a small blaze today was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy when he pointed his gun at the lawman, sheriff’s officials said.
The deputy, assigned to the sheriff’s Transit Service Bureau, was flagged down by firefighters as a fire burned in the 400 block of Solano Avenue, near Broadway, said sheriff’s Sgt. Diane Hecht.
Matt Spence of the Los Angeles City Fire Department said firefighters were dispatched to 474 W. Solano Ave. at 4:49 a.m. on a call of an outdoor fire. Hecht said when firefighters parked their rigs and began walking down the road to the apartment, the suspect came from the apartment building armed with a handgun shouting “I have a gun.”
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