`LOTTO BANDIT' SHOT TO DEATH; POLICE KILL SUSPECT DURING 5TH HOLDUP.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer Police shot and killed a gunman, nicknamed the ``Lotto Ticket Bandit bandit: see brigandage. ,'' during a surveillance early Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. officers shot the gunman as he attempted for the fifth time to rob a 7-Eleven store in the 7000 block of Van Nuys Boulevard, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Lt. Anthony Alba, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . . ``It was apparent that this person would continue to hit this store so it was imperative to stop him before he got violent with the clerk,'' Alba said. The suspect had been dubbed the ``Lotto Ticket Bandit'' because he asked for cash and lottery tickets during all of his previous robberies. ``I understand that he may have even cashed some of his winning lotto tickets at the same store with a different clerk,'' Alba said. The gunman was identified only as a male in his mid-20s, but because he did not have identification on him the Coroner's Office will have to determine his name, Alba said. Sunday morning shortly after 12:30 a.m. the robber pointed a small-caliber handgun at the store's clerk, took cash from the register then forced the clerk to a back room, according to police. It was then that plainclothes Detective Keith Hunter, a 13-year LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. veteran, identified himself and fired at the gunman once ``fearing for his life and that of the clerk,'' according to an LAPD press release. The suspect, who had been hit by Hunter's gunfire, ran out the store's front door and into the parking lot where other plainclothes officers ordered him to drop his gun, according to police. ``Again the suspect pointed his gun at police officers,'' the LAPD press release said. Officers Chris McKinney, an eight-year veteran, and Don Schmidt, a two-year veteran, each fired their weapons and hit the suspect with gunfire. Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. paramedics pronounced the gunman dead at the scene. The store clerk was not injured and there were no other customers in the store at the time, Alba said. ``We're certainly happy to take somebody like that off the streets, especially if he's armed with a gun,'' he said. ``We're very happy that no innocent parties or police officers were injured as a result.'' |
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