At least seven people have been killed and five others injured in a spate of violence in los Angeles County over a 24-hour period, authorities said on Sunday.
A series of shootings kept sheriff’s detectives busy from Carson to the San Gabriel Valley until early on Saturday, los Angles Times quoted authorities as saying.
One victim was shot as she walked down the street, another while he worked on a car and two others as they were leaving a party. “It was a busy night,” Dy Sheriff Grace Medrano said.
The violence began on Friday afternoon when a gunman got out of a parked vehicle and fired several rounds at a man riding his bike, authorities said. The victim was struck multiple times and later died.
About six hours later, two other men were shot less than a mile away. The victims were standing in a driveway when two men rode up on bikes and one pulled out a handgun and opened fire before fleeing, authorities said.
The shooting left one man dead and another in the hospital in serious condition, officials said.
About 1 am on Saturday in the same neighborhood, a man was shot to death as he worked on a car in front of a house, the Sheriff’s Department said.
No arrests have been made in any of the shootings.
Three other shootings took place around the county between midnight and 3 am on Saturday. In one instance, a woman was walking down a street in Carson when someone approached her from behind and shot her to death.