One person is dead following a shooting involving the California Highway Patrol near a popular shopping plaza in Cerritos.
A shooting was reported Friday near the Nordstrom of the Los Cerritos Center, according to law enforcement. The shooting then led to a pursuit on the 605 Freeway that ended about seven miles away from the mall. As a result of the incident, the mall was placed under lockdown for an undisclosed amount of time.
On Monday, the Los Angeles County coroner's office identified the victim as 46-year-old Mauricio Sandoval. His city of residence was not known.
The shooting involved one person and a CHP officer. As a result of the shooting, Sandoval was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.
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The suspects fled the Los Cerritos Center and two of them, a man and a woman, drove away in a vehicle and were later captured in Pico Rivera, the sheriff's department reported.
Jessie Avila, whose daughter works at the mall, alerted her of the incident.
“She messaged me, she text messaged me that there was a shooting inside the store and everywhere you can hear it," Avila told NBC4. "Everybody was running around crazy. They locked down the store. Thank God she’s safe. I mean, somebody fainted inside the store.”
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Detectives recovered a firearm at the scene. Sheriff's detectives assisted the CHP in the investigation of the shooting.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting was urged to call the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
