The man shoots a brother who stifled the elderly mother in Beverly Grove

A man deadly killed his older brother after seeing him suffocated their 80 -year -old mother in his home in Beverly Grove, police said.

Friday, the Los Angeles police service responded to the shooting around 1:25 p.m. in Bloc 400 on rue North Alfred.

According to the LAPD officer, Norma Eisenman, the dispute started when a 61 -year -old man used a baseball bat to damage windows and personal effects at his mother’s home and threatened it.

The woman then called him 57 -year -old, who, according to the police, arrived to find her mother muffled by her older brother. The younger son used a hunting rifle to shoot a warning shot, but the suffocation continued.

Police said the 57 -year -old man “thought he had no choice but to shoot his brother to save his mother’s life.”

According to Eisenman, the shooting is a “justifiable homicide, not a criminal homicide” and the younger son was not reserved. Neither his names of his brother or his brother were released.

The mother suffered from the head injuries that required sutures, said Eisenman.

“The shooter saved his mother’s life”, Lapd Det. Samuel Marullo told Ktla. “He had no choice, but to kill his own brother. And be smothered at the age of 80 while your face is broken in the ground? It would surely have caused his death. »»