Timothy Darrell Elam

Deadly force

Timothy Darrell Elam followed a worker into the Ronald Reagan State Building in downtown Los Angeles. The building was not open to the public when Elam followed an employee into the building and kept his hands concealed in a bag, police said. The man then shouted at employees at a security checkpoint to "get down on the floor." That's when a CHP officer confronted Elam. Elam raised his hands toward the officer, who shot and killed him. Elam had been holding an aluminum can concealed within the paper bag.