A security guard who was threatened by an armed suspect helped take the man into custody early Monday morning, police say.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to the area of West Temple and Hill streets in downtown Los Angeles around 1:07 a.m. after a security guard reported that a man with a gun threatened him.
Responding units set up a perimeter and searched for the man, who was said to be wearing khaki-colored pants and a red backpack and eventually located him and took him into custody.
“A responding ambulance was requested for a male victim – not the security guard – who was suffering from pain to the head from an assault,” an LAPD spokesperson confirmed to KTLA.
No further details, including the identity of the suspect or charges he may be facing, were released.
KTLA photojournalist John Neis and Nancy Fontan contributed to this report.
