South L.A. police shooting under investigation
Authorities were investigating a police shooting in South Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Officers were called around 7 p.m. to a report of a man with a gun near East Martin Luther King Jr. and South Avalon boulevards, said Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
Madison confirmed at least one officer opened fire.
He could not confirm whether the man was shot by police, but he said there was a medical transport from the scene.
As of shortly before 11 p.m., Madison could not provide further information about the shooting or what led up to it.
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