The Los Angeles Police Department believes it detained a man in the planning stages of a mass shooting similar to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that killed 60 people and injured more than 400.
Loaded assault rifles and a sniper rifle were aimed from an 18th-floor window of a Hollywood skyscraper with an “unobstructed view” of the crowds below, but police made an arrest Tuesday before a single shot could be fired. .
Several high-powered rifles, a sniper rifle, a shotgun, pistols and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition were recovered during the execution of the search warrant at the Lumina Hollywood apartment, according to police.
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Braxton Johnson, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department following alleged criminal threats on January 31, 2023.
(Los Angeles Police Department)
The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Braxton Johnson, was arrested.
“The suspect was located on the 18th floor of a large-windowed apartment building with an unobstructed view of a public park on the ground floor, and some of the rifles were pointed out the windows,” Police Department Lt. of Los Angeles, Leon Tsap, during a press conference. .
A photo shared by the LAPD showed the large number of weapons, ammunition and bulletproof vests scattered on a large rectangular table.
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Police first contacted Johnson Tuesday night after receiving calls about a man having a mental health crisis and making criminal threats, according to LAPD.
The weapons were found a day after a search warrant was executed.
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“One of the biggest things that we can take away from this, and from what we’re seeing here, is that members of the public were seeing something out of the ordinary and actually contacted the police (and) trusted the police in let’s go”. to go out and work with them together and bring that to a safe closure,” Lt. Tsap said.
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case to determine if charges will be filed.
There was no immediate update Thursday morning on the prosecutor’s decision.
