Stabbing and officer-involved shooting leave two dead
Los Angeles’ Mid-City neighborhood was the scene of violence Wednesday night. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department investigate at the site, in the 1300 block of Cochran Avenue, near Pico Boulevard. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A woman who identified herself as a friend of one of the victims weeps while talking on a phone near the crime scene. A man and a woman were killed in the stabbing and officer-involved shooting, which occurred around midnight. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
An LAPD investigator talks to a woman near the Mid-City crime scene. The incident followed a report of domestic violence. Police say officers walked in as a man was stabbing the woman who had made the report. The officers shot the man, who later was pronounced dead of gunshot wounds, and the woman died of stabbing wounds. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A command post is set up outside the area where officers said they found a man stabbing a woman inside her apartment. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD investigators use a Los Angeles Fire Department ladder to photograph the scene. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
