A mentally ill man was fatally shot Saturday by Downey police in his backyard after a neighbor called the police on him for lighting fireworks, his family said. The Downey Police Department said it was responding to a call about a “disturbance” on Stewart and Gray Road about 6:15 p.m. The family said Alberto Nicholas Arenas, 29, had struggled with psychosis since he was 12 and lived with his parents at their home.
For roughly two hours, his father said, his son stood in the fenced-off backyard while law enforcement stood outside the house's six-foot wooden gate, yelling at Arenas to come out onto the street. He said the gate has a large plank missing, where the negotiator spoke through. The father said he called the Downey police station at least a half dozen times asking them to wait to engage with his son until he was home.
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