The California Department of Justice will investigate a police shooting that killed a man in North Hills on Wednesday, Sept. 10, despite initial reports that the man was armed.

State Attorney General Rob Bonta will review the shooting because of Assembly Bill 1506, which requires the state DOJ to investigate any police shootings that kill an unarmed civilian, despite previous reports that the man was armed with a gun.

Footage from before the shooting by RMG News, a freelance videographer, appears to show a man believed to be the suspect waving a gun in one hand and holding a bottle in the other.

Officers responded around 5:30 p.m. near Parthenia Street and Orion Avenue after separate reports of an assault with a deadly weapon and a man with a gun that the Los Angeles Police Department s

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