Armed woman fatally shot by LAPD officers identified

Lina Portman3 weeks ago

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Police on Sunday identified a woman who was fatally shot by officers in Panorama City while charging at them with a knife, and released more details about the deadly confrontation.

Police were called at 12:30 a.m. Saturday to an apartment complex in the 9400 block of Van Nuys Boulevard, between Gledhill and Vincennes streets, regarding a suspect armed with a knife and threatening family members, according to the LAPD.

“According to comments in the call, the suspect, later identified as 23-year-old Joanna Lua, was attempting to attack her family members with a knife and was blocking the victims' attempts to leave the apartment,” Los Angeles police said in a statement. a statement on Sunday.

The police stationed themselves on the second floor landing in front of the apartment's front door and attempted for several minutes to “verbalize the occupants of the apartment to enter inside, with negative results,” according to the press release.

Shortly afterward, officers heard what they believed to be Lua's screams and a loud noise coming from inside the apartment.

“Officers believed Lua was trying to gain access to the victim and forced entry through the front door,” police said. “Officers encountered Lua advancing towards them, still armed with a knife, and gave Lua a verbal command to drop the knife.

“As Lua continued to advance toward the officers, she began to raise the knife in her hand, which resulted in an officer-involved shooting, simultaneously, a TASER was fired. Lua was struck by gunfire and TASER probes and was taken into custody,” the statement continued.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.

A 10-inch bread knife with a black handle was found at the scene and taken as evidence, police added.

Lina Portman

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