UPDATE: LAPD Chief Michel Moore announces that the suspect was declared dead at a local hospital. The two victims remain in critical condition.
Authorities are investigating a series of stabbings that led to a security guard shooting the suspect inside a Target in Downtown Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
Police said he grabbed the long knife he later used to stab the victims off a store shelf. Moore later said it was a"butcher-style" kitchen knife.According to Moore, one of the victims was a 9-year-old boy. He was stabbed in the shoulder. He added that the boy came to the store with his mother but separated from her before being stabbed.
Good Samaritans pulled the female victim into a pharmacy and closed the gate to protect them against the suspect.
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