Police Officer Kills Man in Long Beach : Shootings: In separate incident, sheriff’s deputies in Lennox critically wound a knife-wielding victim of a gang beating.

One young man died and another was critically wounded in separate police shooting incidents early Saturday, authorities said.

In Long Beach, police shot a man when he pointed a gun at officers during a confrontation near 16th Street and Locust Avenue, according to Cpl. Jay Fogg of the Long Beach Police Department. Police withheld the identity of the man, who died at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.

The incident began when officers responded to a report of two men with guns and saw them running north on Tribune Court, Fogg said. During a chase, one of the men broke a window in the door of a residence on Locust Avenue, entered the home, then emerged a short time later, he said.

Fogg said Officers Steve Zabel and Richard Ramos saw a chrome handgun in the man’s right hand, ordered him to drop the gun, then fired at him when he pointed the weapon at them.

The man fled and was shot once in the head a short time later by Sgt. James Bisetti, who encountered him in the rear of the building, Fogg said. The man’s companion, a juvenile, was arrested.

In an early morning incident in Lennox, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies critically wounded a man who wielded a butcher knife during an apparent gang fight, according to Sgt. Larry Lincoln.

Two deputies patrolling in the area saw a group of young men beating one young man and ordered them to stop, Lincoln said. The man who was being beaten then pulled out a large knife and began to chase one of his attackers, Lincoln said.

Deputies ordered the man to drop the knife, then shot him as he straddled another youth and raised the knife, apparently intending to stab him, Lincoln said.

The shooting victim, in his late teens or early 20s, was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he underwent extensive surgery, Lincoln said.

No charges have been filed against any of the others involved in the fight, Lincoln said. The matter is under investigation, he said.