February 24, 2011 Security guard instructor killed by student www.privateofficer.com
Los Angeles CA Feb 24 2011
An instructor who was teaching a c;ass on how to be a security guard was fatally shot by one of his students at Coast Career Institute vocational school downtown, according to reports.
The shooting at 1354 S. Hill St. was reported shortly after 4 p.m., police said.
An 44-year-old instructor at a security guard training class was shot and killed Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles classroom and a 22-year-old student was arrested.
Law Thien Huynh, of Gardena, left the classroom at the Coast Career Institute at 1340 S. Hill St., near Pico Boulevard, shortly before 4 p.m., then returned, pushing or kicking the door open, said Lt. Paul Vernon of the LAPD’s Central Division.
Huynh then began firing a handgun at the instructor, “who was the apparent intended victim,” Vernon said.
Huynh then was “initially resistant to arrest and wanted to finish smoking a cigarette,” but was handcuffed within a short time, Vernon said.
A motive for the shooting was not known.
The instructor died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, Officer Karen Rayner of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section said.
Students said the instructor “was really a nice guy.”
The instructor who had worked in the security industry had taught at the school as a side job for three years.
The instructor’s name will be released once his family has been notified.
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