A man was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats Tuesday, and police said they found several 'high-powered' firearms, including one pointed out of a window at a public park.
Los Angeles police on Tuesday arrested a man on suspicion of making a range of criminal threats, and during the course of their investigation recovered a large amount of"high-powered" firearms, including one pointed out of a window at a public park.
The suspect was allegedly threatening security staff members at the apartment and other people outside of the building. Police say that while he wasn't armed at the time of making the threats, the verbiage did involve weapons. New video shared Thursday by a Lumina Hollywood apartments resident shows police at a doorway believed to be the suspect's on Tuesday when Johnson was arrested.
"We're grateful to all that actually did call the police," an LAPD Lieutenant Leonid Tsap."That's exactly what we need from the rest of the public. When they see something they need to say something and then, obviously, we as a department, we as an organization can work together with the public to protect our city."
"He kept talking about mass shootings, and then at one point he asked me, 'I wonder how many people I can snipe through my floor,' and he lives on the 18th floor, so in my head, I'm like 'Oh my God, is he like planning on shooting us, or planning on shooting people at the park?'" said the man."And then he kind of like took two steps back and made a comment like, 'If I was the police, I would start my investigation right here.
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