LAPD Shooting Details

TORRANCE (CNS) – The name of a man was shot and killed by a police
officer in the emergency room at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance was
released today.
Ruben Jose Herrera, 26, of Torrance, was shot dead according to Lt. Fred
Corral of the coroner’s office.
Los Angeles police said he swung a metal stool at officers and tried to
take an officer’s gun.
The shooting was at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the hospital, at 1000 W.
Carson St., but the chain of events started hours earlier with a report of
vandalism in a nearby neighborhood, said LAPD Lt. John Jenal.
Officers responded at 8 a.m. Saturday to the 1600 block of West 207th
Street in Harbor Gateway. Neighbors called police because a man, later
identified as herrera, was throwing bottles at an apartment complex, Jenal
said.
“The suspect attacked officers with punches and kicks and the use of a
Taser was unsuccessful,” he said.
The officers subdued the suspect with a carotid restraint, Jenal said.
Both officers and Herrera were injured in the encounter, so he was taken
to Harbor UCLA for treatment, and the officers were taken to other hospitals,
Jenal said.
He was treated in the emergency room at Harbor UCLA and cleared for
booking, the lieutenant said.
Officers — who were not involved in the original arrest — were
removing the suspect’s handcuffs from the gurney to prepare to take him to the
LAPD’s Harbor Station.
“He again attacked the officers, swinging a metal stool at the
officers,” Jenal said. “They tried a Taser and it was unsuccessful.”
Herrera tried to grab one officer’s gun and an officer shot him once in
the torso, Jenal said. He was pronounced dead in the ER.
The officers injured in the arrest were treated at a hospital and
released, he said.