At least one person is dead after gunfire erupted in downtown L.A. Monday afternoon, leading to police shooting another a person believed to be a suspect in the fatal gun violence.

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a possible shooting in progress at around 3:25 p.m. in the area of 5th and Los Angeles streets, officials confirmed to KTLA.

Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly what occurred before police arrived, but aerial footage of the scene captured by Sky5 showed a victim on the sidewalk covered with a white sheet as investigators erected a canopy over the body.

Less than a half mile away, around 4th and Spring streets, video posted to the Citizen App showed a heavy police presence as officers, with guns drawn, huddled behind a patrol cruiser as an a

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