Photographer Gregory Bojorquez was on the way to the Bank of America early Friday when he saw people running, screaming that there was a gunman on the loose.
A young man in a white tank top was shooting randomly at cars and in the air, until finally he was shot by Los Angeles police in the middle of the intersection at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street.
At first it seemed like a movie but then people could hear the shots hitting metal.
The gunman shot a man in a silver Mercedes Benz. Authorities said that man is listed in critical condition.
Bojorquez said he then saw a plainclothes officer emerge from a squad car.
“I screamed at this plainclothes officer who got out, 'That is the guy. That is the guy,’ because the gunman was heading down the street,” he said.
Bojorquez said the officer ordered the gunman to get on the ground and surrender, but the gunman appeared to ignore him.
“He was screaming he was going to die and that he wanted to die,” Bojorquez said.
The photographer said the man had a knife as well as a gun. “Then he acted like he was going for his gun,” Bojorquez said. “The officer shot, like, four times.”
At first, he said, the gunman did not look like he was hit, but he eventually slumped to the ground.
“That officer saved a lot of lives,” Bojorquez said.
The gunman's body, draped in a white shroud, remained at the intersection for some time. A motive for the shooting remains unknown.
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