By Associated Press - Thursday, September 17, 2015

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police say officers shot and killed an armed man suspected of fatally shooting a woman in a residential area of Los Angeles.

City News Service reports the suspect was wielding a rifle or shotgun when officers fired at him Wednesday afternoon in the Los Feliz neighborhood.

He died at a hospital. The coroner’s office identified him as 39-year-old Carlos Wilhelm.



He was suspected of gunning down 55-year-old Lorraine Gonzalez, who died at the scene.

The nature of the relationship between the suspect and the victim was not immediately clear.

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