A former college football player who was naked and yelling in a Playa Vista street after arguing with a cab driver was shot to death early Friday by a Los Angeles police officer he allegedly attacked, officials said.
The shooting occurred about 3:30 a.m. when two patrol officers responded to a disturbance call in the 5200 block of Crescent Park West and found the man “yelling and behaving erratically,” according to an LAPD statement.
The man was later identified by the county coroner and his ex-sports agent as Reginald Doucet Jr., 25, a former defensive back at El Camino College and Middle Tennessee State University. The shooting occurred just outside Doucet’s condominium building, said his neighbor and former agent, Chris Ellison.
Police said the officers attempted to calm the agitated man and talked him into putting on his boxer shorts, but he ran when they tried to apprehend him. They approached him again, but he ran once more.
