A man waving a machete in the middle of a downtown Los Angeles street near L.A. Live and the Crypto.Com Arena was shot by a police officer Sunday morning, authorities said.
Officers were dispatched at 9:14 a.m. on July 13 to the area of Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard after reports of a man in the street waving a machete and chanting, according to Officer Norma Eisenman, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
“It seems he may have been waving the machete at a security guard,” she said.
The suspect was described as a man wearing a gray shirt, brown shorts and sandals.
Police announced shortly after 9:30 a.m. that Figueroa between 12th Street and Pico Boulevard would be closed for the rest of the day due to a “police incident.”
The location is near L.A, Live, where the Belly Laughs food and comedy festival is taking place, and the Crypto.com Arena, where a Los Angeles Sparks game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
The Crypto arena is advising the public to allow additional time to arrive at events in the area today as traffic and access is limited.
No further information was immediately available.
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