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Roger John Nielsen, 34, died after an encounter with police officers on Tuesday, the LAPD said.

A man died after Los Angeles police officers shot him with a hard foam projectile during an attempted robbery of a convenience store in San Pedro, officials said.

The LAPD said in a news release Thursday that Roger John Nielsen, 34, was taken to an area hospital after the encounter with officers from the Harbor Division, and later pronounced dead.

The police version of events said officers were summoned about 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday to a robbery call in the 700 block of W. Channel Street, where they found Nielsen vandalizing the store.

Officers reported that as they called out to Nielsen,

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