[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] Los Angeles police officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife during the morning hours of February 14 – Valentine’s Day – at the heavily trafficked 7th Street/Metro Center station in downtown L.A., Los Angeles police said.
It was one of two separate officer involved shootings that took place that day, LAPD Chief Michael Moore said during the weekly L.A. Police Commission meeting of February 19.
The other incident took place around 3:25 in the morning in the area of 6th Street and San Julian Street in Skid Row, involving an off-duty plainclothes detective. Why an off-duty detective was in Skid Row at the wee hours of the morning and how the incident occurred are still being investigated, Moore said.
In that incident, the detective was attacked near the rear entrance of the Midnight Mission, according to a report from the L.A. Times. The area behind the mission usually crowded with people and the street there lined with homeless encampments. The detective had been drinking in the hours before he was attacked.