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Police released details about this week’s officer-involved shooting that left a wanted felon dead on top of a Long Beach apartment building, including the fact that he was unarmed at the time. 

According to the Long Beach Police Department, 19-year-old Tyler Damon Woods of Rialto was a passenger in a car originally pulled over for two violations in the area of 3rd St. and Walnut Ave. early Tuesday morning. Woods provided false information about his identity and fled the car on foot. 

During the ensuring foot pursuit, officers learned of his real identity and discovered that he had a felony warrant for an armed carjacking in Los Angeles. Woods was briefly located in some bushes on 4th St. between Nebraska Ave. and Walnut Ave., but again, he ran and his location became unknown for about an hour.

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“Though a containment was established, the suspect continued to move around between buildings from 4th to 5th Streets and Walnut to Nebraska Avenues,” LBPD said in a statement, noting that several residents in the area called police to report the suspect’s location beginning at around 3:30AM.

Woods allegedly attempted to gain entry to multiple apartment units in different complexes in the area and was seen by residents on their balconies and in their courtyards before police finally contained him within one building in the 500 block of Nebraska Ave., where he then ran onto the roof.

“Once on the roof, the suspect took a kneeling position and began to turn towards [officers],” LBPD said. “Knowing the significant danger the suspect posed, being an armed robbery suspect in a previous crime, and they believed based on his actions he was armed, the officers discharged their weapons believing the suspect was about to fire at them.”

Long Beach Fire Department responded and pronounced the suspect deceased at the scene.

Tuesday morning’s officer-involved shooting is the 20th so far this year and the sixth resulting in a fatality.

The Long Beach Homicide Detail investigates all officer-involved shootings. Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact Long Beach Police Homicide Detectives Teryl Hubert and Mark Bigel Guarino at (562) 570-7244.

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