Officials ID Man Fatally Shot at Metro Station in Hollywood

A Los Angeles Metro Rail employee walks in the Hollywood train station in Los Angeles on April 1, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—Authorities May 8 identified a man who allegedly stabbed a security guard at a Metro B (Red) Line station in the Hollywood neighborhood and was then fatally shot by a guard at the facility.

Officers and paramedics were sent to the 1500 block of North Vermont Avenue at about 9:10 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department.