Police Kill 4 in Separate Weekend Shootings

From NBC Los Angeles:

Police killed three people in unrelated shootings in three counties in the last 24 hours.

The latest incident occurred at 11 p.m. Saturday in Anaheim. Police shot and killed a man who they said was carrying a rifle-type BB gun with a wooden stock, said Anaheim Sgt. Bob Dunn, a department spokesman.

Police went to an area on Ball Road after neighbors reported seeing a man carrying a gun, Dunn said. Dunn didn’t reveal any details of the incident, citing the ongoing investigation.

In Riverside, police shot David Ledezma, 52 on Saturday after 4 p.m. on Cypress Avenue. Police were called out for a domestic dispute. A fight between police and Ledezma escalated and police say they shot Ledezma several times.

In El Sereno, police shot a man identified as Juan Nunez, 34. Police said Nunez was armed with a gun and refused to drop it. The incident happened on Axtell Street in El Sereno at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, said Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police said they were sent to the area on reports of a man with a gun. The man, reportedly a father of two, may have been in a dispute with his wife or girlfriend, according to news reports.

Police did not say if a gun was recovered from the body or near it or if the man had fired a gun.

In San Bernardino on Saturday morning, police shot and killed a man, identified by police as Lorenzo Baca, after police said he engaged them in a running gun battle in the 800 block of West Fifth Street at the Interstate 215 overpass, police said. Police said they found a loaded gun and a screwdriver. No other details were immediately available.