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Los Angeles police fatally shoot man armed with steel pipe

Los Angeles police fatally shot a man who was allegedly armed with a steel pipe

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Los Angeles Police investigators check the scene of a police shooting in downtown Los Angeles Saturday, March 4, 2017.

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Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have shot and killed a man they say was armed with a steel pipe.

Authorities say officers confronted the man around 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Olympic Boulevard and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.

Police say they used a Taser on the man but eventually there was a shooting and the man died at a hospital.

The man’s name and other details weren’t immediately released.

Nobody else was hurt.