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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems he may have been waving the machete at a security guard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The suspect was described as a man wearing a gray shirt, brown shorts and sandals.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cpolice incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n
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Originally Published: July 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man waving a machete in the middle of a downtown Los Angeles street near L.A. Live and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5295,2961,224,5337,50,5488,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-63035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police-shooting","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114847690488453682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}