A security guard fatally shot a man inside his car who allegedly attacked a food vendor and tried to run people over at a Home Depot parking lot in South Los Angeles, witnesses said.
The deadly incident unfolded Sunday afternoon at the store on W. Slauson Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The
guard was trying to detain the man
, who was identified as 30-year-old Carlos Lara, after he allegedly assaulted another person.
As Lara tried to drive away, the security guard shot and killed him. Lara was pronounced dead at the scene.
Carole Copeland, who was there when the incident unfolded, started filming as soon as she saw the commotion in the parking lot.
“He almost rolled over somebody, and somebody went over the trunk and then you hear ‘Pop! Pop!’ … you hear the gunshots,” she recalled.
In the video, you can see a crowd had surrounded Lara, who was in his car after he allegedly attacked the vendor.
“They were selling hotdogs, and the man came over there and told them they couldn’t be selling hotdogs, and they got into an argument and he hit the old man,” said Copeland. “He had a busted head and he was bloody.”