Authorities said they received five more similar calls from witnesses alarmed by what they saw.
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Security camera footage provided later by police shows Mr Robertson holding a gun as he walks, and clutching the weapon on the ground after being shot.
Deputies caught up with Robertson as he was crossing Long Beach Boulevard toward an Arco gas station.
Community activist Najee Ali, who initially called the shooting “an execution”, backed away from earlier rhetoric after viewing the video.
There are protests in Lynwood, California after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officers fired 33 shots at an armed suspect at busy intersection on Saturday.
BREAKING: A witness’s graphic video appears to show Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies fatally shooting a man near a gas station in Lynwood.It was unclear what led to the incident, in which more than two dozen shots seemed to be fired.
“I think there is a logical effect to walking around in a busy commercial area during the day firing a handgun and then refusing to comply with the police”, Bueermann said.
The sheriff’s captain said Robertson walked south on Long Beach Boulevard, acting oddly and yelling out, and briefly spent time at a vehicle wash and pizza place before deputies arrived at the scene.
A sidewalk memorial is seen for Nicholas Robertson on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in Lynwood, Calif. Robertson was fatally shot Saturday by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in Lynwood, south of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell talks to reporters during a news conference about Saturday’s fatal shooting of a man in Lynwood, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The first 911 caller reported seeing a man walking down a street shooting a gun in the air.
If an officer or officers encounter a more determined suspect, they may be required to keep shooting until the damage of bullets upon the suspect’s body forces him to stop being a threat, either through blood loss or a central nervous system hit.
The video showed the deputies repeatedly shooting the man, even after he fell to the ground and appeared to be crawling. Robertson died at the scene.
An autopsy is pending.
“This man never turned at you and looked at you or pointed the gun at you”.
LASD said there was no evidence at this time to show that Robertson fired his weapon at deputies.
In response to the number of shots, 33, fired at the man, Katz reported this was “not necessarily unusual”.
“There’s going to be criticism any time there’s a deputy-involved shooting”, McDonnell said at a news conference.
The video does not show Robertson pointing the gun directly at police though officers said it was pointed in their general direction.
Speaking of Robertson’s love of their three children, Nekesha added, “They will not get away with it. My kids will see justice”.
Seth Stoughton, a criminal law professor at the University of SC and a former Tampa, Fla., police officer, said there are circumstances under which an officer can shoot at a suspect walking away from them.
“Anytime you see him, you see him with the children”, she said. “We see that, particularly in the past two years or so, the sentiment has been critical”. “He had take them to and from school”.
As he is still a threat and still attempting to maneuver while controlling his weapon, officers appear legally justified in continuing to shoot at him, as he was apparently moving towards a family of innocent bystanders. Help them with assignments.
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One of Robertson’s young children took the bullhorn and said plaintively, “My dad’s not a bad person”. He’s a daddy – that’s his job.
