A shootout between a gunman and police left two people dead, including the gunman, in North Hollywood Monday morning.
At 4:50 a.m., Los Angeles police responded to a call about an assault with a deadly weapon in the 12000 block of Victory Boulevard.
When officers arrived in the area of Victory Boulevard and Bellingham Avenue, they encountered a man with a firearm, police said at X. The man pointed his gun at officers and when officers got out of their vehicles, they exchanged gunfire with the man.
It is unclear what prompted the shooting or who fired first.
The gunman fled the area and ran north on Bellingham Avenue, toward a parking structure behind a gym; officers established a perimeter around the area.
The man came out of the west side of the parking structure on St. Claire Avenue, south of Hamlin Street, where a second shootout between the officers and the man occurred.
It is unclear who fired first.
He then ran back into the structure and emerged from the north side, where officers and the man exchanged gunfire a third time.
According to the police, the man was hit by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene.
A bystander in the parking structure was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound, the Los Angeles County Police Department said.
It is unclear if the bystander was hit in the exchange of gunfire.
The identities of the armed gunman and the victim in the parking structure have not been released.