Nicholas Armando Burgos Jr., a 38-year-old Latino man, died on November 1, 2020, after being shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy inside Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near 1000 W. Carson St. in West Carson, California. Hospital records and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner report that Burgos was shot seven times in the upper body after a deputy fired nine shots.

On October 6, 2020, Burgos reportedly experienced a psychiatric episode, used a piece of steel medical equipment to break a fourth-floor window and entered a room where an injured deputy was recovering. Around 11 p.m., two deputies guarding the injured colleague heard banging and screams. Burgos allegedly raised the steel object above his head and lunged at a deputy; despite repeated commands to drop it, the deputy fired. The sheriff’s department says the deputy was about a second or two from being struck in the head. The deputy was later relieved of duty.

The Board of Supervisors asked the Office of the Inspector General to investigate and consider restrictions on law enforcement presence in county hospitals. No arrests or charges have been announced and the shooting remains under review. If anyone knew Burgos or witnessed the incident at Harbor-UCLA, can you share what you saw or know?