Man Killed in Police Shootout

A 24-year-old man who shot at Los Angeles police officers was fatally wounded by return fire in the latest in a spate of officer-involved shootings, authorities said Sunday.

Thanksgiving weekend also was marred by a suspected gang-related homicide and the fatal shooting of a man sitting at a bus bench, they said.

The officer-involved shooting, at least the fourth reported since Friday, occurred after police responded to a family disturbance call at an apartment building in the 500 block of South Union Avenue shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday, police said.

The family reported that a boyfriend of a girl who lived at the address was bothering family members, said Los Angeles Police Lt. William Hall, who heads the department’s officer-involved shootings investigations.

As police questioned family members in a second-floor hallway, the boyfriend was spotted standing in an alley holding a sawed-off shotgun, investigators said.

Hall said the boyfriend, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, fired a shot at officers through a window. Two officers returned fire, striking the gunman several times, twice in the head, Hall said.

In one five-hour stretch beginning late Friday, one suspect was killed and two others were wounded in three shootings involving Los Angeles police officers. No officers were injured.

In other violence this weekend:

- Javier Delgadillo, 24, died after he was shot by two suspected gang members early Sunday morning in the 3000 block of West 7th Street. The suspects fled and remain at large, police said.

- An unidentified man, who refused to cooperate after three robbers demanded money from him, was shot and killed at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday as he sat at a bus bench on 103rd Street near Will Rogers Park in Watts.

- Long Beach police found the partially clothed body of a 24-year-old woman on the beach at Bluff Park on Sunday and later arrested Juan Chavez, 24, who was driving a car identified by witnesses as one observed leaving the scene. He was booked on suspicion of murder.

- A Marine from Camp Pendleton threatened to “kill a bunch of people and commit suicide” Sunday as he barricaded himself inside his mother’s Montebello home for more than eight hours. Henry Mora, 20, surrendered to police and sheriff’s deputies after a more than eight-hour standoff, authorities said. Mora was sent to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center for a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation.

- An unidentified man was killed in a drive-by shooting in La Puente, a sheriff’s deputy said. Detectives went to the 15500 block of Blackwood Avenue to investigate the shooting that occurred Sunday evening, Deputy Angie McLaughlin said. The man is believed to have been in his 30s, she said.

- A 19-year-old alleged gang member was shot and killed by what police said was a member of his own gang. Mario Larios, 19, was fatally shot in the 4000 block of South Wadsworth Avenue at 2 p.m. Sunday. There was no motive established in the killing.