L.A. man shot dead in front of his home
The fatality was one of several incidents overnight that included an LAPD officer accidentally shooting himself in the leg.
An unknown gunman fatally shot another man outside his home, a police officer accidentally shot himself in the leg and police chased a suspect through the streets of Venice in separate incidents that kept officers in the LAPD's Pacific Division busy overnight.
It began at about 10:20 p.m. Monday in the 4800 block of Slauson Avenue in the Del Rey area, said Ana Aguirre, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Alberto Ramirez, 22, was standing on the sidewalk outside his residence when a man walked up to him and shot him several times in the chest, she said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No other details were available.
At about 11 p.m., two officers were chasing several suspects on foot near the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard in Venice when one of the officers shot himself in the leg, Aguirre said.
She did not know how the officer accidentally discharged his weapon, but she said he was taken to a hospital, where he was recovering from the single gunshot wound. His name was not released. The incident is being investigated as an officer-involved shooting.
About half an hour after that incident, several suspects in a car led police on a pursuit that ended in a crash at Ocean Park Boulevard and Centinela Avenue in Venice, near the Santa Monica border. Aguirre had no other details.
Vives is a Times staff writer.
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