Deputy Kills Man in Confrontation After Attacks
A man who attacked a 65-year-old man on a bus bench and a teenager on a bicycle in Rosemead on Sunday morning was shot and killed minutes later in a struggle with a deputy, authorities said.
Shortly after 11:30 a.m., sheriff’s deputies found the injured elderly man on a bench at Valley Boulevard and Muscatel Avenue. He said his attacker had run east.
Two blocks in that direction, the deputies encountered a 16-year-old at a gas station who said he had just been attacked on his bicycle. Two other men said they too had fought off assaults.
“At this point, there doesn’t appear to have been any rhyme or reason to these attacks,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Martinez. “He just walked up to people on the street.”
Minutes later, a deputy saw a man matching the attacker’s description running south on Rosemead Boulevard. When the deputy got out of his car, the man attacked him, authorities said. The deputy fired one round, striking the 36-year-old suspect in the head.
His name had not been released.
The deputy was treated at a hospital and released.
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