Overview
- LAFD responded just after 8:30 a.m. to the 6500 block of Ocean Front Walk after witnesses reported a person jumped into the water and did not return.
- County lifeguards located the man roughly 30 yards from where he entered the channel, with the recovery captured in on‑scene video.
- Responders pulled the victim onto a rescue board and transferred him from a rescue vessel to a lifeguard boat as paramedics began resuscitation.
- Firefighter‑paramedics continued advanced life‑saving care at the Beaches and Harbor docks, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Authorities have not released the man’s identity, and the case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the county Medical Examiner.