Man slain by officer identified

A man shot and killed by a police officer in the 3000 block of Loosmore Street on Friday was identified as Carlos Edwin Arevalo, 25.

According to Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Norma Eisenman, the shooting occurred about 6:25 p.m., when two officers in an “all-purpose vehicle” saw two people on the street and stopped to talk to them. The pair took off running.

“There was some sort of pursuit, and an officer was involved in the shooting,” she said.

Eisenman said that a handgun was recovered at the scene and that the officers were in uniform, an assertion disputed by several neighbors.

Arevalo was pronounced dead at County-USC Medical Center, police said.

Two neighbors said Arevalo was among more than 30 people at a gathering after the funeral for Marcos Salas, 36, who was gunned down in a drive-by shooting Feb. 21 while picking up his daughter at school.

“We were gathered to pay our last respects,” said a Salas relative, who asked not to be identified. “Everybody was outside. A bunch of babies. Parents and couples.”

She said she had seen Arevalo walk down the block to see his girlfriend’s brother, who lived across the street.

The LAPD is investigating the incident.

-- Margot Roosevelt