Off-duty Beverly Hills PD officer fatally shoots armed suspect in North Hills

An investigation was continuing Friday into the fatal shooting of an allegedly armed suspect by an off-duty Beverly Hills police officer in the North Hills area.

Police said the off-duty officer witnessed an altercation between two people near the Roscoe Boulevard off-ramp of the San Diego (405) Freeway around 8:20 p.m. Thursday.

The officer stopped and tried to intervene in the fight, realizing that one of the combatants was armed with a gun and the other with a pipe, police said. At some point during the attempted intervention, the officer wound up shooting the man with a gun.

The man with the pipe was detained.

Sgt. Lynnsey Diamond from the Beverly Hills Police Department told City News Service the LAPD will be handling the investigation of the shooting.

No LAPD officers were involved in the shooting.

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LAPD officers remained at the scene into the early hours of Friday morning and Roscoe Boulevard from the freeway to Chase Street was closed for several hours.

LAPD Capt. Brian Wendling told KCAL9 at the scene that while the investigation into Thursday night's shooting was continuing, sometimes off-duty officers are compelled to get involved in life-threatening situations.

"If somebody's life is in jeopardy, you have a duty to stop," he said.

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