{"id":64618,"date":"2015-07-04T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=64618"},"modified":"2015-07-10T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T19:58:11","slug":"man-shot-dead-in-deputy-involved-shooting-in-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/07\/04\/man-shot-dead-in-deputy-involved-shooting-in-lancaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead in deputy-involved shooting in Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The man shot by deputies died in a dirt field near Avenue K-4 and 30th Street West in Lancaster. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 A man was shot dead during a deputy-involved shooting in Lancaster late Friday night and “a semi-automatic assault pistol was recovered next to his body,” authorities said.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened around 11:35 p.m. Friday, July 3, as detectives from the Gang Unit, Operation Safe Streets Bureau, “were patrolling in the 3100 block of West Avenue K-4 in Lancaster,” according to a news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Information Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey stopped their patrol vehicle to contact the suspect and his friend. As the deputies exited their patrol vehicle, the suspect, a Hispanic man, took an assault pistol out from under his jacket and a deputy-involved shooting took place,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n

The suspect was shot in the upper torso and pronounced dead at the scene, and the suspect\u2019s friend ran away across a dirt field and out of view, sheriff\u2019s officials said in the news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect\u2019s handgun, a semi-automatic assault pistol, was recovered next to his body,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n

Deputies conducted a perimeter search for several hours to find the second suspect, but it was unclear Saturday morning if the second suspect had been found.<\/p>\n

No deputies were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n

The man shot dead by deputies has not yet been identified pending next of kin notification, coroner\u2019s officials said Saturday morning. There is no further information available at this time.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.<\/p>\n

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UPDATED 7.10.15<\/span>: The man fatally shot has been identified as 46-year-old Arturo Lopez, according to the coroner’s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER \u2013 A man was shot dead during a deputy-involved shooting in Lancaster late Friday night and “a semi-automatic assault pistol was recovered next to his body,” authorities said. The shooting happened around 11:35 p.m. Friday, July 3, as detectives from the Gang Unit, Operation Safe Streets Bureau, “were patrolling in the 3100 block of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}