Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Force Investigation Division is investigating an Officer-Involved Shooting (OIS) in Hollenbeck Division.
On July 22, 2022, around 6:50 p.m., Hollenbeck Division patrol officers were in the area of Eastern Avenue and Whiteside Street, when they saw a dark-colored sedan with no license plates. The officers followed the vehicle into a parking lot where the front passenger exited armed with a firearm. The officers pursued the man on foot into a residential neighborhood. Near the intersection of Lansdowne Avenue and Drucker Street, the man, later identified as 40-year-old Lino Soltero, pointed the firearm in the officers’ direction, resulting in an OIS. Soltero was struck by gunfire and transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.
The loaded 9mm firearm Soltero was armed with was recovered at the scene.
No officers were injured during this incident.
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