SECURITY GUARD SHOOTS GUNMAN FIGHT IN PARKING LOT ENDS IN MAN'S DEATH.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer LANCASTER -- A man who pulled out a gun and starting shooting during a fight after he backed into a pickup truck in a bar parking lot was fatally shot by a security guard, sheriff's officials said. The fatally wounded gunman got into his car and drove off, but made it only about a quarter mile before running off Avenue L, officials said. ``Two individuals became involved in an argument over a minor traffic accident in the parking lot,'' Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. spokesman Deputy Anthony Moore said Thursday. ``One of the males produced a handgun and began shooting at the other. A security guard at the location intervened and shot the male with the gun in the upper torso torso /tor·so/ (tor´so) trunk (1). tor·so n. pl. tor·sos or tor·si The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk. .'' Neither the second man nor the security guard was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. , Moore said. The dead man, described as a Latino in his 20s, was not immediately identified, and coroner's officials said he might be a Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County resident. The fight broke out as patrons were leaving Snooky's in the 42600 block of Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling at its 2 a.m. Thursday closing, officials said. Homicide Detective Traci Gonzalez, standing near the dead man's compact car early Thursday as coroner's officials prepared to remove the body, said investigators have not confirmed that the security guard fired the fatal shot or shots. Other individuals besides the gunman and the other man got involved in the altercation before the security guard tried to break it up, she said. They had not been identified yet, she said. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if other weapons were fired as well,'' Gonzalez said. |
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