Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two police officers shot and killed a man Sunday after he turned on them during a foot chase and cut one officer’s ear with scissors, officials said.
Police were called shortly before 4 p.m. when the man was seen stealing parts from cars near a major intersection in the San Fernando Valley, said Officer Don Cox, a police spokesman.
“The officers chased the man into a residential area, where he turned around and lunged at one of the officers with a pair of scissors, causing a flesh cut on one officer’s ear. Both officers then fired their weapons and the man was pronounced dead at the scene,” Cox said.
The identity of the man who was killed, and the officers involved, were not made public.
Further south, a San Diego police officer shot and killed a 35-year-old man who was waving a brick at him Sunday in Otay Mesa.
Leon Morgan Sr., a construction worker, was hit in the upper and lower torso during the 11:35 a.m. domestic violence call and died at a hospital about one hour after the shooting, said police Capt. Mike McCulloch.
When the officer arrived, Morgan was waving a brick in his right hand above his head, McCulloch said.
The officer’s name was withheld to give him 24 hours to inform his family of the shooting, McCulloch said. The officer was placed on paid leave.
The shooting was the 11th involving a law enforcement officer in San Diego County this year. Five people have been killed. Seven of the 11 shootings involved San Diego police officers.
The last shooting death occurred May 3 when Escondido police officers shot and killed a 16-year-old girl when she allegedly pointed a gun at her 25-year-old companion’s head. Two days earlier, Henry Ricardo Enciso Jr., 26, was killed by law enforcement officers after he shot a tow truck driver on Interstate 5 outside Camp Pendleton. Enciso jumped the fence onto the Marine base, where he was shot.