http://ktla.com/2016/10/03/lapd-officers-involved-in-pair-of-fatal-shootings-in-south-l-a-over-the-weekend/
Just before 1 p.m. Saturday, Metropolitan Division officers
spotted a light-blue Nissan Altima with paper license plates that indicated an incorrect model year, Beck said.
Officers
suspected the vehicle, which had at least two people inside, was stolen. They
saw a man in the rear seat look in their direction and then duck down, as if to hide, Beck said.
They followed the car, which slowed. Two men ran from the vehicle, according to an LAPD news release.
The man in the back of the car jumped out "holding his waistband as if he was supporting something," Beck said.
On foot, the officers chased the man, later identified as 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr., some 200 to 300 yards, Beck said.
As the officers ran after Snell, they saw him take a handgun from his waistband and hold it in his left hand, according to Beck.
http://abc7.com/news/community-leaders-want-answers-after-fatal-south-la-police-shooting/1536462/
A woman (neighbor) who did not want to show her face on camera or use her name said she witnessed the shooting and tried to stop Snell from running, even asking the officer to put down his gun.
"I told CJ to stop - 'stop CJ, they're going to shoot you.' But CJ kept running, then he ran across my driveway and ran to a fence. Then I came to the backdoor and begged the police not to shoot him and told him he's a regional kid," she said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-los-angeles-police-shooting-carnell-snell-questions-protest/
Witnesses told CBS Los Angeles the deceased man — believed to be Snell — was running with his hands up, and said he was telling officers he was unarmed, when police shot him about five times.
Relatives of the dead man told the Times Snell was killed on the same street where he lived.
Police have not said how many times Snell was shot or if he was shot in the back.
Trenell Snell, 17, said she was outside with friends when she saw her older brother running from police. She said she started running too, and that she hit the ground when she heard gunfire.
When she got up, her brother was on the ground, handcuffed, she said.
“At the end of the day, the cops came and shot my brother,” she said. “Killed my brother.”
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