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Several blocks of downtown Los Angeles were shut down Wednesday after reports of someone shooting a rifle from an apartment high-rise prompted a police SWAT team response.

No one has been injured, but the incident began just after 5:30 a.m. when police officers responded to reports of gunshots in the 900 block of Broadway.

Responding officers requested backup and began searching the large apartment complex — identified as the Broadway Palace Apartments — for any potential victims or a suspect.

By the afternoon, police had determined that the gunshots had come from inside a unit.

Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Michael Bland said during a news conference that the person inside

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