Officials on Tuesday identified a 17-year-old girl who died after she allegedly grabbed a deputy’s gun and shot herself during an altercation at the Industry sheriff’s station.
The shooting occurred Sunday night at the station at 150 N. Hudson Ave., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Johanna Gonzalez of La Puente died at the scene, according to the L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Department, which listed her death as suicide. The cause of death was listed as “gunshot wound of head.”
“Investigators learned that on Sunday … at approximately 7:25 p.m., Industry Sheriff’s Station deputies received a family disturbance call for service on the 300 block of Clintwood Avenue in the city of La Puente,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement Monday morning.
“The juvenile’s foster parent reported that the juvenile was suffering from an apparent mental health crisis. Deputies responded to the scene; however, the juvenile had already left on foot before the deputies arrived,” the sheriff’s statement said.