NORWALK, Calif. (KNX) — State prosecutors disclosed Saturday they intended to investigate the fatal shooting of a man outside a Norwalk home that was the site of a standoff between a gunman and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
“It has not yet been determined how the decedent was shot and killed,” the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement on Saturday. “Given this uncertainty, the California Department of Justice is treating the incident as an AB 1506 qualifying event.”
AB 1506 is a state law requiring the Attorney General’s office to conduct independent investigations of all fatal law enforcement shootings of unarmed civilians.
A sheriff’s special enforcement team reported to the home after a standoff on Friday morning and arrested the gunman barricaded inside. The suspect, who has not been identified, was hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds.
Deputies also found a 67-year-old man lying in the yard of the house with wounds to his upper torso, sheriff’s department officials said in a statement on Saturday. The victim, identified as Pedro Lopez, died at the scene.
Authorities have not disclosed whether the gunman was suspected in the events leading up to Lopez’s death. Detectives collected ballistic evidence at the scene and as of Saturday were awaiting testing results to determine the source of the bullet that struck the victim.
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