A pedestrian was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers Wednesday on the westbound Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway in Paramount.
CHP officers were called to the freeway near Garfield Avenue at about 11:20 a.m. after receiving reports of a man in the roadway, a CHP officer told reporters at the scene. ABC7 reported Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters were called to the scene on similar reports, but the pedestrian was identified as a man “described as a psychiatric patient.”
CHP officers discovered the man apparently injured on the freeway and “went to check on the welfare of the downed pedestrian” when the shooting occurred, but no further details on what led up the shooting were available, according to the CHP.
No officers were injured.
Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics took the man to St. Francis Medical Center, where he died. The man’s name was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Authorities closed the westbound Glenn Anderson Freeway in the vicinity of the shooting, along with the Garfield Avenue on-ramp, for more than nine hours Wednesday afternoon while an investigation into the shooting was conducted.
