A man shot and killed one of
three men who burst into his home in the Harbor Gateway area,
police said Monday. The shooting occurred about 11:15 a.m. Sunday
in the 1600 block of West 215th Street, said Officer Norma
Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations
officeAccording to the preliminary investigation, three
men entered the residence and got into a "physical altercation"
with the victim, who wrested a handgun from one suspect and shot
him, Eisenman said One neighbor said he was going out for
breakfast when he saw a resident outside the house, clutching his
face as if he was punched, the newspaper reported. Two of the
intruders then ran from the house past him, got into a silver
Honda Civic and drove away, the neighbor said. The third intruder
remained inside the house. "They left him behind," the neighbor
said. "Then we heard the gunshot."