Police recently released new details about what turned out to be a deadly shooting involving officers who were responding to reports of a man swinging a metal object at passing cars in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles earlier this week.
The incident occurred around noon on Tuesday in the 10300 block of Kalmia Street, following a report of an assault with a deadly weapon.
“The comments of the call indicated the suspect, later identified as 56-year-oldHugo Polanco, was ‘using wires as a whip and attempting to hit passersby,’” the Los Angeles Police Department said in an update on Wednesday…