The Los Angeles Times
GARDENA, Calif. — A robbery suspect was shot and killed by Gardena police early Sunday outside a Yoshinoya restaurant on Redondo Beach Boulevard, authorities said.
The suspect struck an employee twice in the head with a replica handgun and took a bag of money about 6 a.m., Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Larry Lincoln said.
Two officers confronted the unidentified man outside the 24-hour eatery. The officers said they shot him multiple times after he produced the replica, Lincoln said.
The handgun appeared so real, Lincoln said, that investigators mistook it for “a real firearm until we took it to the lab.”
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