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Los Angeles, California — On May 2, 2023, around 9:40 a.m., uniformed officers working a Transit Services Division detail at the Redline Metro Station located at Vermont Avenue and Beverly Boulevard were approached by Victim No. 1, an 18-year-old, male, Hispanic, who informed the officers a suspect, later identified as 23-year-old Mason Todd Swenor, had brandished a knife at him. Victim No. 1, showed the officers a photograph of Swenor on his cell phone and directed the officers to Swenor’s location. The officers’ proceeded up to the lower-level mezzanine, where they observed Swenor who was also in possession of a knife.
The officers made contact with Swenor and repeatedly ordered him to drop the knife, however, Swenor failed to comply with the officers’ commands. Swenor fled to the upper-level mezzanine, where he approached Victim No. 2, a 74-year-old, female, Hispanic and struck her in the head with an unknown object. The officers continued to pursue Swenor up to the street level. Swenor continued north on Vermont Avenue from Beverly Boulevard and while on the sidewalk, Swenor stabbed Victim No. 3, a 61-year-old, male, Hispanic, on his left shoulder.
As Swenor continued to flee and ran across the street into the rear parking lot of the building located near the 300 Block of N. Vermont Avenue. Swenor positioned himself in front of a parked vehicle, while still in possession of the knife. The officers pursued Swenor to the parking lot and positioned themselves at the rear of the vehicle. The officers continued to give commands ordering Swenor to drop the knife, however, he refused to comply. With the knife in his hand, Swenor charged at one of the officers resulting in an officer involved shooting. Swenor was struck by the officers’ gunfire; he fell to the ground and dropped the knife. Swenor was taken into custody without further incident.
Swenor was transported to a local hospital where he is being treated for his injuries. Swenor is listed in critical, but stable condition. Victim No. 1 was not injured during this incident. Victim No. 2 received medical treatment at a hospital and was released. Victim No. 3 was hospitalized for a laceration and is in stable condition. Swenor is a resident of Glendale, AZ and he was booked for 664/187(A) – Attempted Murder (Booking No. 6597136). His bail was set at $2,125,000.00.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Surveillance Footage
0:56 – Bodycam: Officer #1
4:14 – Bodycam: Officer #2
7:35 – Witness Cellphone Footage
9:40 – Dashcam Footage
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3 flights of stairs are enough to make these officers essentially give up, let a mad man on a stabbing spree get a healthy head start. Physical fitness is a must to be an officer.
Democratic stronghold of California….and look at. Complete third world shthole
All those cops at the end are such a waste of resources
Officer's nearly shoot each other again! They literally moved into each others line of fire. What is going on with their training?
Something is wrong with this world… things changed. Never seen this kind of senseless behavior before.
Finally some excellent witness footage!!
Wtf. Don't know what else he expected . Is it just me or did that look like he tried the old suicide by cop shit.
Only LAPD would have to wait for a stabbing suspect with knife walk the subway and then a few block. Could have stabbed alot of people walking.
Re-open the lunatic asylums.
Hopefully it put him out of action for life…!!!
the cops here are such cowards. letting a citizen be stabbed while they make no effort to detain him
Contact made, numerous commands to drop the knife, foot pursuit, white male, dark clothing. Yet, he was allowed MANy opportunities to comply. My mistake he is of the 13%, interestingly he is still alive. No death shots
Why does LAPD still have handheld radios?
It's amazing how a 115grain bullet can change a bad guys attitude.
What the hell is with LAPD and their unwillingness to get the job done? The POS threatened one, stabbed two, and these two cops were going to do what? Chase this idiot forever? The dude is clearly a threat and they’re going to let this POS run around the city, put this dumb a$$ down.
Nice work officers!!! I’m glad that you both are safe!!!
When the meth makes you feel like superman until you can't feel your legs.
Perp coming with knife at innocent bystanders: "Sir please put it back in your backpak. Sir? Sir? SIR! Sir please? Please sir?…."
Perp coming with knife at them: BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
Is he out already? since he didnt kill anybody im sure DAs already let him out to streets.
Tactically that was the worst performance I’ve seen in a while on this channel. Look at the baby with his bottle(cop that can’t drop the radio even though he has all the tools necessary to handle the situation)
“Officer needs help†why the suspect is down and no officers are injures that’s the worst radio communication you can put out.
Some lawyer with shiny shoes will have something good to say about that dirt bag
He couldn’t use his legs see how his ass was paralyzed nice