The Los Angeles Police Department supervisor who fatally shot an unarmed man near the border between Los Angeles and Culver City mistook a bicycle part in his hand for a gun, police reported Friday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez looks back at the courtroom during a hearing in the Rampart corruption scandal of ...

10:02 a.m. Feb. 6, 2026: An earlier version of this article identified Rafael Perez as a former LAPD detective. His rank was officer. The LAPD has opened an internal investigation into a San Fernando ...