office. here you are, new episode tonight this is life, 9:00 eastern. you take us inside the los angeles county coroner s office. here is a clip. in this room, who has the most bodyies? mike. how many do you think you ve collected? between 11,000 and 13,000. wow. yeah. but even more employees as seasoned as mike, some cases still stand out. are there case that s haunt you? sometimes. i went to a call once. it was a little boy that ran into the street and he got hit by a car. so he was laying there. it was a little hispanic kid. i was looking at a little boy the same age i could see my son there. and i looked across the street and i saw the parents. it could be me and my wife. it really affected me.
how an under cover fbi sting stopped them before they could carry out any of the vicious attacks. plus, somebody has to do this job. our own lisa ling goes inside the l.a. county coroner s office. she joins me live to talk about what she found and what surprised her the most.
procedures. also the l.a. county district attorney s justice systems integrity division responded to the scene and will conduct a comprehensive review of all facts which result in the shooting. the officers involved in this incident are assigned to our safer cities initiative in central area and are specially trained on dealing with homeless people and mental illness issues. several of the officers have participated and completed our most extensive mental illness training over a 36-hour course. all of the officers had had training to some extent in dealing with the mentally ill. photos of the officer s pistol are on my right. as you can see, the slide is partially engaged and a round has been partially ejected and
they were dispatched to a citizen report of a robbery call. upon arrival the, officers and a supervisor made contact with the victim who directed them to a suspect s location. when police approached the suspect, he repeatedly refused to comply with officers commands and then began to fight with them. during the altercation, officers used tasers in an attempt to subdue the man. however, the tasers appeared to have little effect and he continued to violently resist. while on the ground, and struggling with the officers the man forcibly grabbed one of the officer s holstered pistols resulting in an officer-involved shooting. officers immediately summoned los angeles fire department paramedics to the scene who determined the man was deceased. paramedics transported him to the l.a. county coroner s office.
smell blood and i wake up to being terrified. if i hear a noise, i wake up just in a complete state of terror. um, to a point that i d rather not sleep than fall asleep and wake up like that. pistorius spent just over 90 minutes on the stand. his lawyers asked to end earlier because the 27-year-old was exhausted. well, he wasn t the tallest but of all of the actors who grew up in front of the camera, mickey rooney may have been the biggest. ain t that the truth? mickey rooney died sunday at the age of 93. his death confirmed by the l.a. county coroner. mickey danced, acted, and