Report: Former Carlisle man fires at motorists in LA before being shot and killed by police
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Authorities on Saturday identified the gunman who was killed
by police after he fired at passing cars on a
Hollywood street, wounding one driver
while screaming he wanted to die.
The body of Tyler Brehm, 26, was scheduled to be examined later Saturday, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Larry Dietz
said. The Pennsylvania television station
abc27 reported Saturday that Brehm was
from Carlisle and had recently moved out
west with his girlfriend. According to
Brehm's Facebook page, he and his girl
friend had broken up on Wednesday, the
station reported.
Brehm walked down the middle of
Sunset Boulevard on Friday, firing on motorists with no clear target until two police
officers who just happened to be in the
(Associated Press - Gregory Bojorquez)
In amateur video taken at the scene, the
gunman appeared to have short hair and
wore jeans and a white tank top. He paced
back and forth near the busy intersection
with Vine Street, firing close to 20 rounds
from what appeared to be a .40 caliber
handgun, police said. Several witnesses re
ported seeing him reload at least once.
"He was screaming he was going to die
and that he wanted to die," Gregory Bojor
quez, a photographer who captured images
of the shooting's aftermath, told the Los Angeles Times.
Investigators were trying to determine a
motive for the attack.
Ramon Hernandez, who lived in the apartment next door to Brehm, said Brehm and his girlfriend had recently broken up and moved out.
He told KABC-TV Saturday that the pair kept to themselves but he at times heard them arguing.
"I could tell that he was an unstable person," Hernandez said, "but I don't know the details on what actually made him snap."
Chris Johns captured video of the gunman from his apartment window several stories above the street, and tried to distract and divert the gunman from shooting anyone on the street.
"Hey why don't you come up here! Come up here buddy!" Johns yelled.
Johns told KABC he saw a plainclothes officer shoot the man.
"I started shouting out to the officer, saying 'take him out, that's the guy!'" Johns said.
He continued shooting at vehicles and in the air when he was confronted by the officers.
They ordered the suspect to stop and drop his weapon. He was shot when he pointed his weapon at the officers. The gunman was pronounced dead at the scene, Los Angeles police Officer Cleon Joseph said. No officers were hurt.
The area was cordoned off and the gunman lay under a white sheet in the street hours after the gunfire, leaving traffic tangled on busy Hollywood streets, an area packed with stores and restaurants.
The 40-year-old male driver of a Mercedes-Benz was wounded in the face and upper torso.
Paramedics took him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and police said in a statement he was in "guarded and critical condition."
Authorities have not released his name.
A truck and another car were struck by
bullets.
Two people were treated at the scene
for minor injuries. One man suffered a grazing wound to his left thigh when a bullet
passed through his car door. Another man
had minor cuts from broken glass after
bullet struck the driver door where it met
the window.
Earlier:
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office has identified Tyler Brehm, 26, of Hollywood as the man who shot at motorists in Hollywood Friday morning, wounding one, before he was shot and killed by police, the Los Angeles Times reported this afternoon.
A Facebook member by the name of Tyler Brehm is listed as living in Hollywood and being from Carlisle, Pa., the Times reports.
Brehm died near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street minutes after wandering up the street firing a handgun, the Times reported.
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