![]() There, he tussled with a deputy as he held a towel in one hand and jacket in the other. The deputies pursued and caught up to Kizzee a short distance away on 109th Place. When he saw the deputies coming for him, according to the deputies' account, he abandoned the bike and tried to get away on foot. As such, he wasn't allowed to possess a gun. Though the deputies didn't know it, Kizzee had previous felony convictions involving guns and narcotics and a restraining order against him. More: LA deputies shot in ambush are recovering as search continues for gunman Kent Wegener, head of the homicide bureau. So when deputies saw Kizzee riding his bicycle on the wrong side of a street, they flipped a U-turn in their cruiser and tried to confront him over the traffic violation, said Sheriff's Capt. "We are trying to save lives, plain and simple." Residents there are trying to survive in a "war zone," Villanueva said. The Los Angeles Times, Villanueva said, has dubbed it "Death Valley." The area of about one square mile has seen 12 homicides through September and 115 arrests of armed people, the majority of them gang members. He was killed 'in cold blood,' attorney Ben Crump says More: Grainy video shows Dijon Kizzee running from Los Angeles deputies. ![]() The sheriff indicated the area merited special attention by deputies. In releasing new details about the Kizzee shooting at a news conference, Sheriff Alex Villanueva painted a picture of the unincorporated area south of Los Angeles' downtown where it occurred, Westmont, as one of the roughest in the city. ![]()
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