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Law Enforcement News Potential Mass Shooting Thwarted In Hollywood: Man Arrested, ‘High-Powered’ Weapons Seized Los Angeles police officers seized several high-powered weapons from a man accused of making criminal threats Tuesday, averting what authorities believe could have been a mass shooting in the planning stages. Police say Braxton Johnson, 24, was arrested in Hollywood
"The suspect was located on the 18th floor of an apartment building with large windows with a non-obstructed view of a public park downstairs, and some of the rifles were pointed outside the windows."
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Several neighbors reported 24-year-old Braxton Johnson threatened them outside the Lumina Hollywood, a 22-story apartment complex.
"The suspect was located on the 18th floor of an apartment building with large windows with a non-obstructed view of a public park downstairs, and some of the rifles were pointed outside the windows."
High-powered rifles were pointed outside of a Hollywood high-rise with "an unobstructed view," according to the Los Angeles Police Department, which said it thwarted a potential mass shooting.