A shootout between a gunman and police ended with two people dead, including the shooter, in North Hollywood Monday morning.
At 4:50 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 12000 block of Victory Boulevard.
When officers arrived in the area of Victory Boulevard and Bellingham Avenue, they encountered a man with a gun, the police department said on X. The man pointed his gun at officers and when officers exited their vehicles, they exchanged gunfire with the man.
It is unclear what triggered the shooting or who fired first.
The gunman fled the area and ran north on Bellingham Avenue toward a parking lot behind a gym; officers established a perimeter around the area.
The man exited the west side of the parking lot on St. Claire Avenue, south of Hamlin Street, where a second shootout occurred between officers and the man.
It is not known who fired first.
He then ran back inside the structure and exited through the north side, where officers and the man exchanged gunfire for a third time.
Officers said the man was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene.
A passerby in the parking lot was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound, the Los Angeles County Police Department said.
It is not known whether the passerby was hit in the exchange of gunfire.
The identities of the gunman and the victim in the parking lot have not been released.
