Teen Fatally Shoots Herself At LA Sheriff's Station
INDUSTRY, CA — A teenage girl fled from her foster home to a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department station, where she wrestled a gun from a deputy’s holster and shot herself to death, authorities announced Monday.
The 16-year-old died Sunday night at the station at 150 North Hudson Avenue in Industry, and investigators are still working to determine what happened and whether the girl shot herself intentionally or by accident.
The shooting happened at 7:40 p.m. Sunday not long after the girl’s foster family called authorities to report a family disturbance and potential mental health crisis at their home in La Puente about a mile from the station, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.
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“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 issued 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.”
Not long after that, the girl turned up at the sheriff’s department.
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“Deputies from the Industry Sheriff’s Station were alerted to a female Hispanic juvenile who was knocking on the front door of the Sheriff’s station lobby. The deputies walked to the lobby door. At which time the juvenile lunged into the lobby and reached for the deputy’s holstered firearm and took possession of it,” according to the statement by the sheriff’s department. “A struggle ensued between the deputies and juvenile who was armed with the deputy’s firearm. During the struggle, the juvenile suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
Information was not immediately available on the identity of the girl, who died at the scene. The sheriff’s department is continuing to investigate the shooting.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
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