Man fatally shot by LAPD officers when he pointed a black cellphone towards officers

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South Los Angeles, CA - Police shot and killed a man who they believed to be armed in South Los Angeles on Friday evening. It turns out that he was actually holding his cellphone when the shooting occurred.

It happened at around 10:20 p.m. at the intersection of Imperial Highway and S. Spring Street, where officers pulled a car over after witnessing it "driving erratically," according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Officers say that they ordered the driver, identified as 35-year-old Mario Sanchez, to lower his windows and place his hands outside of the car.

"Sanchez yelled profanity at the officers and, moments later, exited his driver's door. Sanchez faced the officers, removed a dark object from his waistband area, and quickly pointed it at them, resulting in an Officer-Involved Shooting," said a press release from LAPD.

He was struck by gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.

"The object Sanchez pointed at the officers at the time of the OIS was later determined to be a cellphone," police said.