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Latest: Police chief says black man shot was holding gun

Los Angeles Police officers stop their patrol vehicle to speak to neighbors and members of the community gathered around a makeshift memorial outside a residence on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Officers shot and killed Carnell Snell Jr. in south Los Angeles on Saturday at the end of a car chase, sparking a protest by several dozen people angered by another fatal police shooting of a black man. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Los Angeles Police officers stop their patrol vehicle to speak to neighbors and members of the community gathered around a makeshift memorial outside a residence on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Officers shot and killed Carnell Snell Jr. in south Los Angeles on Saturday at the end of a car chase, sparking a protest by several dozen people angered by another fatal police shooting of a black man. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Latest on police shootings in California (all times local):

11:20 a.m.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says a black man fatally shot during a foot pursuit was holding a loaded semiautomatic handgun and turned toward officers.

Beck says the man was hit once in the torso and once in the knee Saturday. He says the man’s gun had a round in the chamber but was not fired.

Beck says the officers did not have body cameras, but a surveillance video from a business shows the man was armed.