Coroner names man seen shot by Los Angeles deputies on video

Although it’s hard to make out in the video, it appears that the officers continued firing after Robertson was severely wounded and trying to retreat from the gun blasts.

According to a statement posted on LASD’s Facebook page, the man ignored multiple calls to drop his weapon and was seen by witnesses pointing his gun at sheriff’s deputies before he was shot.

Other family members said the shooting was unjustified and that Robertson may not have heard the deputies’ command to drop the gun.

“Do you want to tell me why, in what circumstances, it would be justified to shoot somebody on their knees?”

Deputies spotted Robertson in front of the gas station, where two women and three children were inside a vehicle, and ordered him to drop the gun, but he refused and at one point pointed the gun in the deputies’ direction, Katz said.

The deputies were responding Saturday to reports of a man walking in Lynwood and firing a gun into the air around 11 a.m., Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez said in a statement.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Then he made his way to a auto wash and pizza parlor on the commercial strip where he died.

When an officer-involved shooting results in the wounding of a suspect, separate investigations begin at the scene by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau and Internal Affairs Bureau, with the Office of the Inspector General also present, the sheriff’s department statement said. The suspect, the statement notes, was described as a “male Black with a handgun wearing a checkered shirt”. The first call came in at 10:53 a.m.

“There was some grave concern for the number of people in that area”, Katz said. The gun was not registered to Robertson, officials said today. Katz said some people at the gas station believed that Robertson was going to shoot them. 45 calibre handgun, was recovered at the scene, said police.

Green said the shooting was another instance of the “excessiveness of the state”, and that black communities would be better off with no police officers. “Nothing”, Monica Reddix said. “There was never a time when the weapon was not in his possession”, Katz said.

Katz also said that Robertson might have experienced some “domestic discord” with his wife that could have prompted his actions, but did not provide further details. They were kept behind yellow police tape; there were no reports of violence or arrests.

Following McDonnell’s news conference, Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Project Islamic Hope President Najee Ali and other civil rights leaders demanded a U.S. Justice Department probe into the shooting. “That’s why we… try to be as transparent as we can with the information that we can share to say, hey here’s what we have, here’s what we know about it, with the caveat that there’s more investigation to be done”.

McDonnell urged caution in drawing conclusions about Saturday’s shooting from the video. “We’ve seen that particularly in last two years or so”. They say Robertson was armed with a gun. Witnesses reported Robertson was acting in an erratic fashion.

“They shot him in his shoulder, and he was crawling”, Pamela Brown, Robertson’s mother-in-law, told Los Angeles television station KCAL.

Speaking to the LA Times, one of Roberston’s in-laws, Tracy Brown, 47, of Lynwood, said: ‘They shot him.