A homeless man was hospitalized with at least one gunshot wound after he refused officers' commands to drop a knife he had allegedly been threatening patrons with at a hotel Sunday morning in Little Tokyo.
The police shooting occurred at 3:48 a.m. at the Miyako Hotel, 328 E. First St., the Los Angeles Police Department reported.
The man, who is said to have frequented the area in the past, was threatening patrons in the hotel's lobby with a knife when officers were called to the scene. The shooting occurred when the man allegedly refused to relinquish the knife.
"When the officers arrived they saw a man with a knife in the lobby,'' according to an LAPD statement. "They gave him commands to drop the knife. The suspect failed to obey the officers' commands, he advanced towards the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred.''
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The man's injuries are not considered life threatening.
