The first person was stabbed shortly before noon Friday, on the edge of downtown L.A.’s skid row. Police ultimately shot and wounded the man, ending a chaotic afternoon episode that stretched across several blocks of skid row and sent four people to the hospital. The man shot by police was in surgery late Friday afternoon. Skid row, a 50-block neighborhood with an estimated population of 10,000, is widely known as the epicenter of homelessness in Los Angeles. Butler said he did not think the encounter would exacerbate the longstanding tensions between skid row and the police.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 07, 2017 19:48 UTC