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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> – Los Angeles police<\/a> on Saturday identified a man who was fatally shot by officers after he allegedly fired a weapon during a police chase<\/a> that ended on the northbound 405 Freeway in Westchester.<\/a><\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The incident began around 4:15 a.m. on Friday, June 5 when Pacific Patrol Division uniformed officers responded to a radio call of a robbery in progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the scene, a cab driver told officers he had been threatened with a gun and directed them to a suspect, identified as Thomas Hearn, who was seated inside a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n According to police, officers ordered Hearn to get out of the car and surrender; however, he refused and drove away.<\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <\/strong>405 Freeway reopens near LAX after LAPD fatally shoots armed robbery suspect<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A police chase ensued, which moved onto the northbound 405 Freeway.<\/p>\n Near the Howard Hughes Parkway overpass, Hearn stopped his vehicle and allegedly fired one round out of the driver’s side window before resuming driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities said he stopped a second time just south of Jefferson Boulevard, where he exited the vehicle armed with a black handgun and faced pursuing officers.<\/p>\n According to police, Hearn refused several commands to drop the weapon, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n A man who allegedly fired at officers during a chase was shot and fatally wounded by police at the end of the pursuit on the 405 Freeway in Westchester Friday and the ensuing full northbound closure caused a morning traffic nightmare expected to last hours.<\/p>\n Hearn was shot, taken into custody, and given medical aid by officers until Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics arrived. He was transported to a local hospital where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n Investigators recovered a loaded 9mm semi-automatic Polymer80 handgun\u2014commonly referred to as a “ghost gun”\u2014at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Officials have not yet released information regarding how many officers fired their weapons or how many rounds were discharged during the confrontation.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s also unknown what triggered the initial dispute between Hearn and the cab driver, or whether Hearn was acting under the influence of any substances at the time of the pursuit.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The LAPD’s Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This report is based directly on official preliminary statements and investigative updates released by the Los Angeles Police Department following the incident.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Los Angeles<\/a>West Los Angeles<\/a>Instastories<\/a>Westchester<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police on Saturday identified a man who was fatally shot by officers after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6082,9994,2961,26074,224,6080,5337,50,6166,68,60837,54665],"class_list":["post-849269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-instastories","tag-la","tag-la-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-losangeles","tag-news","tag-series","tag-us","tag-west-la","tag-westchester"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116705176381642531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849269","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=849269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"PREVIOUS](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f7jdkvatkia3soc5.jpg\")
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Suspect dead after police shooting on 405 Fwy<\/a> <\/p>\n