An officer-involved shooting in Los Angeles left one man dead, according to police.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of shots fired near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue at approximately 2:30 p.m. local time, the LAPD told KTLA. After the shots were fired, a man was seen lying in the street, covered in blood and wearing a bulletproof vest, and the back bumper of a black sedan appeared to be touching a police vehicle, the report said.
No other details were immediately available, and representatives for the LAPD did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for relevant documents.
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The reported incident follows several shootings occurring throughout the United States in recent weeks. A North Carolina man was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Wednesday after the deputy attempted to serve a warrant. One person was killed and five were injured after shots were fired at an Ohio vigil for another shooting victim, and a shooting on Long Island last week left one dead and two injured in New York, among other incidents.
The shootings have prompted calls for gun control legislation from the Left. President Joe Biden told reporters he was confident gun control legislation would pass, saying he believed Congress would greenlight “rational gun control” measures.
“The only gun control legislation that’s ever passed is mine. It’s going to happen again,” he said last month.
Weeks later, the president announced a slate of gun actions aimed at targeting untraceable firearms known as “ghost guns” and pressing the Department of Justice to advance policies designed to curb gun violence.
“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic,” he said on April 8 while unveiling the policies. “And it’s an international embarrassment. … Enough, enough, enough.”
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Biden will continue to push his gun control agenda through Congress, a senior administration official told reporters.
Rules targeting assault rifles and beefing up background checks must go through Congress.
