Overview
- Los Angeles County deputies responded to reports of a man armed with a knife at Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que and Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene on Sunday.
- A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department source and a department news release say a customer carrying a concealed firearm shot the knife-wielding man, and the customer remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators; those details are still being verified.
- Officials told reporters that a crash at a nearby Starbucks is connected to the investigation, and homicide detectives are processing both scenes and interviewing witnesses to piece together the sequence of events.
- Multiple witnesses described a graphic scene inside the restaurant, and limited reports say the man may have wounded himself and had been driving erratically before entering the dining area; those accounts have not been fully corroborated by authorities.
- The restaurant and surrounding plaza remain blocked off while detectives gather evidence, and authorities have asked anyone with information to contact the LASD Homicide Bureau as they work to determine legal and public-safety implications.