Los Angeles: A teenage girl shot and killed a deputy in the lobby of a California sheriff’s station on Monday.
The girl, whose name has not been released, began knocking on the door of the train station in Industry, near Los Angeles, on Sunday night.
When the officer went to open the door, the girl was able to grab a service weapon from one of them.
“The juvenile entered the room, went to the deputy’s home and grabbed him,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
“There was a fight between the deputy and the juvenile who was armed with the deputy’s gun,” he said.
“Minor self-harm in relationships”.
Doctors who were called declared the woman dead on the spot.
Homicide detectives are investigating the incident, which authorities say began with a phone call from the child’s foster father saying he was suffering from a mental health crisis.
“Deputies responded to the scene, but he took off on foot before deputies arrived,” she said.
American police are routinely armed and carry their weapons with them at all times.
The LA County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that the death was “not a deputy shooting,” using terminology used when an officer shoots someone.
Washington Post statistics show more than 1,100 people have been shot by police nationally in the past 12 months.
The number is unofficial because police departments are not required to report incidents to the federal government.
Firearms kill tens of thousands of people every year in the United States, where there are more guns than people.
