According to a news release from the Long Beach Police Department, officers received a report of a man armed with a gun on the 5200 block of Atlantic Ave around 3:15 p.m. on Nov. 19. In a later statement, police spokesman Richard Mejia said that police received a 911 text, which Boyd confirmed he had sent.

Family members of a 38-year-old man in the throes of a mental health crisis, who called 911 himself and was later shot dead by police on the steps of a Long Beach church in a gunbattle that left

Brandon Boyd’s family members held a news conference and called for justice on Tuesday, nearly a week after he was shot and killed by police in Long Beach.

Family members of a 38-year-old man in the throes of a mental health crisis, who called 911 himself and was later shot dead by police on the steps of a Long Beach church in a gunbattle that left one officer injured,

Police in Long Beach shot and killed a man in a gunbattle that also left an officer injured with a gunshot wound. The incident unfolded when officers with the Long Beach Police Department