One dead in Hemet following confrontation with security guard

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A man has died following a confrontation with a security guard in Hemet Friday, Aug. 6.The incident, first reported at about 11:45 p.m., Friday, Aug. 6, occurred in the 2000 block of E. Florida Avenue near a “popular fast-food restaurant,” according to a press release issued by the Hemet Police Department.“911 dispatchers began receiving calls regarding a shooting,” the report said. “One of the calls was from an on-duty armed security guard who said that he shot someone who had attacked him.”Hemet police and Hemet fire responded to the scene where they found a 30-year-old unidentified man “down” in the parking lot suffering from at least one gunshot wound and the 43-year-old security guard who admitted to shooting the man, who died at the scene, following a phys
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