Police: Man Shoots Caregiver Then Himself in Pacific Palisades

Updated 4:15 p.m., July 24:

A man is found dead with a gunshot wound Tuesday morning in the Palisades Highlands and a woman, believed to be the man's caregiver, is sent to a local hospital in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Los Angeles police.

It's being deemed as an attempted murder-suicide.

Multiple LAPD units including a helicopter responded to 1476 Paseo De Oro at 8:24 a.m. for a report of shots fired.

Police found an adult man with one gunshot wound at the home and a woman with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Los Angeles Police Department Public Information Officer Wendy Reyes.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police and the coroner's have not released his name until next of kin are notified.

A Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter transported the woman to a nearby hospital, where her status was changed from serious to critical condition.

As of 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD PIO Bruce Borinhanh said the woman's condition has improved to "stable."

"We won't totally know until the officer's interview the surviving victim," Borinhanh told Patch, adding LAPD does not know for certain the woman's relationship with the man. "It's an isolated incident. We don't know what prompted it."

A neighbor to the home, Aiden Fite, told Patch he heard four gunshot noises Tuesday morning, and heard someone scream "help me." Fite added that residents were aware the man who lived at the home owned "a lot of guns."

Amy Kalp, vice president of the LAPD West Bureau Traffic Committee, said Capt. Evangelyn Nathan wanted the public to know that it is an isolated act of domestic violence and there was no threat to the community at large.

According to the preliminary investigation, the man shot the
unidentified woman and then shot himself, police told reporters at the scene.

Police said the man was being treated for an unspecified medical
condition, which neighbors described as a stroke, according to ABC7. The investigation is ongoing.

- City News Service contributed to this report.

Patch will provide more information as it becomes available. This post was originally published at approximately 10 a.m., July 23 and has been updated multiple times since.

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