https://goresee.com/videos/watch/c927cd6d-be2e-4e61-9231-f4c5795276ef Los Angeles, California, USA https://abc7.com/post/video-bodycam-footage-shows-fatal-van-nuys-lapd-shooting/3854861/ VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police released graphic bodycam footage showing a police shooting in Van Nuys that left a knife-wielding suspect and an innocent bystander dead last month. The LAPD showed the graphic video during a press conference Tuesday morning. The footage was recorded on body-worn cameras from the officers involved in the incident. The incident occurred on June 16, when officers with LAPD's Van Nuys Division received a radio call about a man who had stabbed his ex-girlfriend with a knife, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said. Responding officers confronted Guillermo Perez outside of a church on Tyrone Avenue. Perez was holding a metal folding chair and a large knife, Moore said. Officers told him to drop the knife, but he ignored their commands. That's when police fired bean bag rounds at Perez, Moore said. "He moved away from officers and grabbed an innocent bystander who was standing nearby. Perez began to cut the innocent bystander's throat with a knife. That's when three officers shot at Perez to stop his actions and prevent him from killing the hostage," the chief said. Officers fired 18 rounds, and Perez was shot and killed. The innocent bystander, 49-year-old Elizabeth Tollison, was struck twice by police gunfire, and she later died at a hospital, Moore said. Moore said there's much more work to be done in the investigation before he is able to provide recommendations on the actions of the officers involved. The investigation will look into whether proper procedures were followed. The chief said it's been 13 years since an officer's gunfire killed an innocent bystander or hostage. In the last six weeks, it's happened twice -- the most recent being the incident at a Trader Joe's market in Silver Lake, where a store manager was killed by police gunfire in a shootout between LAPD and a standoff suspect. "The life of the hostage is paramount and protecting that individual from the threat of the assailant, and in doing that, the balancing act that the officer has - is how to protect them by stopping the suspect's actions," Moore said. "This was a tense situation that unfolded very quickly. It's every officer's worst nightmare." Perez had a very violent past. He was released from prison and also convicted of robbery. He was a documented gang member who was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence. https://abc7.com/post/van-nuys-lapd-shooting-lawsuit-announced-in-innocent-womans-killing/3860876/ VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An attorney for the victim of the family of a woman who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers during a hostage situation in Van Nuys said police failed in de-escalating the situation and criticized the tactical protocols taken by the involved officers. Attorney of The Cochran Law Firm Brian Dunn said the death of the victim, 49-year-old Elizabeth Tollison, was preventable. "You have three officers firing, and we have accounted for 18 total rounds and during the sequence of firing the suspect is in very close proximity to my client's mother," Dunn said. "It is illogical and inconceivable for an officer on the scene to not realize she will almost certainly be shot if 18 rounds are fired." Dunn said police officers should have better assessed the situation with the suspect Guillermo Perez, who was seen in the video released by LAPD to be holding a knife to Tollison's throat. Dunn suggested Perez was mentally unstable and that officers should have recognized that when confronting him, criticizing how police officer kept yelling during the encounter. "It should have been obvious, based on the manner he was acting, that something wasn't right with him," Dunn said. He also accused LAPD of wrongfully framing the situation as the officers trying to save Tollison's life. The comments were made at a press conference to discuss the filing of claims for wrongful death, assault and battery, and negligence against the City of L.A. and its police department on behalf of the family of Tollison. During the press conference, one of Tollison's children, Jesse Pelaez, also criticized LAPD's handling to the hostage situation. "The police had no regard for my mother's life and shot her down," Pelaez said. "The situation could have been handled in so many different ways, but it looks like they chose to make it the worst case scenario just so they could kill the suspect." "While Ms. Tollison was being held by Mr. Perez, the three LAPD officers negligently assessed the circumstances presented to them, and negligently discharged their department-issued firearms at Mr. Perez and Ms. Tollison," the Cochran Firm stated in a press release. Moore said an investigation will look into whether proper procedures were followed. Eyewitness News contacted LAPD and it said it cannot comment further because of the pending lawsuit. The investigation by the department will take months. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-hostage-shooting-lapd-van-nuys-out-of-policy-20190521-story.html Last summer, Los Angeles police released dramatic video of a violent encounter that unfolded near a Van Nuys church: A man in a standoff with police suddenly grabbed a bystander and held a knife to her throat. Three officers then unleashed a volley of gunfire that fatally wounded them both. On Tuesday, a civilian oversight panel ruled that two of the three officers violated department policy on the use of deadly force in the incident. The LAPD identified the officers as Eugene Damiano, Andrew Trock and Cristian Bonilla, all of the Van Nuys Division. It was unclear which of the officers were found to have violated rules that call for lethal force only when protecting oneself or others from imminent injury or death. But the unanimous decision by the five-member Los Angeles Police Commission coincided with conclusions Chief Michel Moore detailed in a report he presented. Moore said other officers with similar experience and training would have reasonably believed Perez presented an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. But one of the officers "did not have a viable sight picture" of Perez before firing, which caused an "extreme potential for risk of injury to the hostage," Moore said. In the case of the second officer found to have violated policy, Moore said he took into "consideration the rapidly unfolding tactical situation" in which the officer made a "split-second decision under stressful circumstances." Still, Moore said, the officer should have withheld fire because other officers had "already engaged Perez with deadly force." In hostage situations, LAPD officers have long been taught to aim a "precise head shot" at the suspect, Moore said last year. In the aftermath of the Van Nuys incident, Moore announced changes in tactics and weaponry that may lessen the odds of another hostage situation ending in the death of an innocent person. The changes, Moore said at the time, had already been in the works after worrying trends emerged in LAPD shootings. Some of the changes included implementing new training as well as equipping officers with a 40-millimeter launcher that fires foam rounds and has a greater chance of stopping suspects than a beanbag gun. He also issued a training bulletin instructing officers to organize themselves better at scenes to avoid having too many guns pointed at suspects. Moore will now decide what discipline the officers should face. https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2021-11-02-adult-children-settle-suit-with-lapd-officers-over-mothers-death/ VAN NUYS (CNS) - Three adult children of a woman shot to death by Los Angeles police officers while being held hostage by a suspect in 2018 in Van Nuys settled their lawsuit with the three lawmen, attorneys in the case told a judge today. Tollison's sons, Jesse Pelaez and Nick Ramirez, and daughter, Rebecca Tollison, sued in September 2018, naming as defendants the city of Los Angeles as well as Officers Eugene Damiano, Andrew Trock and Cristian Bonilla. The city was dropped as a defendant in March 2020. In notifying Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Bernie LaForteza of the settlement during Tuesday's status conference, the attorneys did not divulge any terms. LAPD Chief Michel Moore concluded that all of the officers failed to formulate a clear plan or did not take proper cover as outlined in the department's policies. Moore also characterized the shooting as a ``rapidly unfolding'' tactical situation in which the officers had to make immediate decisions. In his court papers, attorney Peter Ferguson, on behalf of the three officers, said they all believed deadly force was necessary because they believed Tollison's life was in danger. https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/officers-confront-stabbing-suspect-in-van-nuys-area-nrf040-18fp/ The officers involved in the below incident have been identified as Police Officer III Eugene Damiano, Serial No. 27194, Police Officer II Andrew Trock, Serial No. 42820, and Police Officer Cristian Bonilla, Serial No. 43272, Van Nuys Division. 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