The parents of Yong Yang said that they specifically called mental health officials, and not police, after their son began experiencing a bipolar episode.
Before Yong Yang was fatally shot by Los Angeles police last week inside his parents' Koreatown home, his mother called mental health officials for assistance. Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode, Myung Sook Yang said, and she specifically reached out to the county Department of Mental Health before the shooting to avoid involving law enforcement.
James An, president of the Korean American Federation, said that the DMH had held a community presentation in Koreatown only weeks before to inform families of people with mental illness about resources available to them. Attendees were told they could call the DMH, instead of police, for nonviolent emergencies, he said. An said he had spoken with interim LAPD Chief Dominic Choi, who had assured him a thorough investigation of the incident would be conducted.
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