Claim: Officer involved in homeless death

INGLEWOOD, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Inglewood, Calif., police declined comment Sunday on a report that an officer was involved in the shooting death of a homeless man, the Los Angeles Times said.

A witness and the Los Angeles County coroner's office said a police officer had been involved, the newspaper said. It would be the fourth officer-involved shooting in Inglewood since May.

The witness, a photographer, said the man who was shot was homeless. Jerry McKibben, an investigator with the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, said the man was pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center at 2:50 p.m.

"It was an officer-involved shooting involving the Inglewood Police Department," McKibben said.

Los Angeles TV stations showed news footage of a shopping cart on its side, presumably holding the dead man's belongings, the Time said.

Inglewood Police Lt. Michael Marshall declined to confirm an officer had been involved in the shooting, the report said.

The Office of Independent Review -- established by Los Angeles County supervisors to monitor law enforcement -- is investigating the Inglewood Police Department following officer-involved shootings including a May incident that left a 19-year-old man dead and two others wounded, and two fatal shootings in July.