The Los Angeles Police Commission is expected to decide Tuesday whether officers were justified in fatally shooting an 18-year-old during what police described as a “running gun battle” in a Watts housing project in which one officer was shot and wounded. Richard Risher died on a sidewalk last summer in Nickerson Gardens, creating tension in a housing project that has a complicated history with the police. One man began to run, then turned and started shooting at the officers, who fired back, killing him, Beck said. The LAPD identified the officers who fired their guns as Francisco Zaragosa, Isaac Fernandez and Joseph Chavez. Earlier this year, Risher’s mother filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and the officers who shot her son.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 27, 2017 14:26 UTC