By Associated Press - Saturday, March 4, 2017

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police have shot and killed a man they say was armed with a steel pipe.

Authorities say officers confronted the man around 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Olympic Boulevard and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.

Police say they used a Taser on the man but eventually there was a shooting and the man died at a hospital.



The man’s name and other details weren’t immediately released.

Nobody else was hurt.

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