{"id":63459,"date":"2025-07-13T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63459\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:44:14","slug":"police-shoot-machete-wielding-man-in-downtown-la-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63459\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot machete-wielding man in Downtown LA \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man waving a machete in the middle of a Los Angeles street was shot by a police officer Sunday morning in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched at 9:14 a.m. Sunday 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<p>&#8220;The suspect advanced toward the officers before entering the driver&#8217;s seat of a black Dodge Challenger,&#8221; according to an LAPD statement. The car fled south on Figueroa Street with officers in pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pursuit ended on Figueroa Street, just south of 12th Street, where the suspect &#8212; who was the sole occupant of the vehicle &#8212; exited while still armed with the machete,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The suspect charged at officers, and an officer-involved shooting occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was wounded by the gunfire and officers rendered aid at the scene, police said. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Officers recovered the machete and booked it as evidence, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Figueroa Street remained shut down between Olympic and Pico boulevards for the police shooting investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man waving a machete in the middle of a Los Angeles street was shot by a police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,13044,2499,2961,4530,224,9740,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-63459","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-downtown-la","11":"tag-downtown-los-angeles","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-lapd","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-police-department","16":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848587047713636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63459","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=63459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}