LAPD Chief: Officers Kill a Hostage for 1st Time in 13 Years

LAPD Chief: Officers Kill a Hostage for 1st Time in 13 Years
This still image taken from a body camera video released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows a Los Angeles Police Officer confronting an armed suspect in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 16, 2018. Los Angeles Police Department via AP
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LOS ANGELES—Dramatic video released Tuesday shows Los Angeles officers fatally shooting a man and the woman he was holding with a knife to her throat, the first of two recent killings of hostages or bystanders as police tried to stop attackers.