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Family demands answers after LAPD officers fatally shoot mentally ill man in Koreatown
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/lapd-officers-kill-mentally-ill-man-in-k-townfree link: https://archive.ph/oiRro
Before Yong Yang was fatally shot by Los Angeles police last week inside his parents’ Koreatown home, his mother called mental health officials for assistance.
Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode, Myung Sook Yang said, and she specifically reached out to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) before the shooting to avoid involving law enforcement. Within hours of making the call, her son was dead — killed in his family’s living room while holding a kitchen knife, police said.
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Min Yang said the clinician spent less than two minutes talking to Yang before deciding to call the police.
After officers arrived, he said, they told him and his wife to wait outside while they tried to contact Yang, and didn’t inform them that their son had been shot until much later.
Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode, Myung Sook Yang said, and she specifically reached out to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) before the shooting to avoid involving law enforcement. Within hours of making the call, her son was dead — killed in his family’s living room while holding a kitchen knife, police said.
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Min Yang said the clinician spent less than two minutes talking to Yang before deciding to call the police.
After officers arrived, he said, they told him and his wife to wait outside while they tried to contact Yang, and didn’t inform them that their son had been shot until much later.
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