Terron Boone was shot dead by the police in a confrontation in a Rosamond, California, parking lot Wednesday afternoon, according to a family representative.- Boone is the half brother of
Robert Fuller , a Black man whose body was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California, last week. - Local authorities initially deemed Fuller's
death a suicide, but his family believes he may have been lynched. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the California attorney general, and the FBI are investigating. - Boone was wanted on charges of false imprisonment, spousal assault, and assault.
- Officials said Boone fired several shots at deputies before officers returned fire, hitting Boone in the chest and killing him.
Exactly one week after Robert Fuller's body was found hanging from a tree in Southern California, Fuller's half brother was killed by the police in what authorities described as a shootout in a nearby town.
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Lt. Robert Westphal of the sheriff's department told the Los Angeles Times that detectives were trailing a suspect when he pulled into the parking lot of an apartment complex in Rosamond, got out of the passenger side of the vehicle, and fired at least five shots at detectives.
Westphal said the officers returned fire, striking the man in the chest and killing him.
A woman and a 7-year-old girl were also in the vehicle. The woman was also shot in the chest but was released from the hospital Wednesday night, the sheriff's department said. The child was not injured.
It's unclear what their relationship to Boone was.
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Since Tuesday, Boone had been wanted on more than a dozen charges including spousal abuse, false imprisonment, assault with a firearm, and threatening assault, according to Los Angeles Superior Court records.
Sources told NBC Los Angeles and Fox 11 that Boone was suspected of kidnapping an unidentified woman and holding her against her will.
Other than confirming that Boone was killed in the shooting, the family had no other comment, according to their attorney, Jamon Hicks.
"At this time, until we receive all of the information, the family and their legal team doesn't have any further comment on this incident," Hicks said in a statement. "The family respectfully asks that their privacy be respected."
Boone's death came one week after the body of his half brother, Fuller, was found hanging from a tree in a park in Palmdale, California, on June 10.
Fuller's death was initially listed as a suicide, but his family has said they believe it may've been a lynching.
Fuller's death, as well as that of Malcolm Harsch — a Black man whose body was found hanging in Victorville, California, 10 days earlier — gained national attention at a time of widespread protests for the Black Lives Matter movement.
The FBI and the California Attorney General's Office are now monitoring the investigations into Fuller's and Harsch's deaths.
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