A Baldwin Hills man was shot to death by two Ventura police officers when he pointed a pistol at them after a car crash on the Ventura Freeway, police said.
The dead man was identified by Ventura police Saturday as Jose Hernandez Jr., 32.
He was shot after an incident that began Friday evening when his southbound auto veered to the side of the freeway, broke through a guardrail on a railroad overpass and rolled down an 80-foot embankment just north of the Johnson Drive off-ramp in Ventura, the California Highway Patrol said.
