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Police shoot, kill suspect in MacArthur Park attack
Los Angeles police shot and killed a suspected assailant Sunday as he or she was attacking another person near MacArthur Park, officials said.
The shooting was reported at 1:05 p.m. near Union Avenue and Sixth Street, said Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department.
"The officers were on their way to a totally separate call when they witnessed the suspect attacking a citizen with a knife,'' Baek said. "This is when the officer-involved shooting occurred.''
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
At least one gunshot was audible on a Los Angeles Fire Department radio frequency, as a firefighter was radioing in that his truck had arrived at some sort of incident. "Oh, wow, shots fired, we have an officer-involved shooting right behind the truck,'' said the firefighter.
A minute later, the same firefighter calmly reported that one person was dead and no police or firefighters were injured.
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