Police investigate two Los Angeles shootings after suspect admitted to one of them
Police investigate two Los Angeles shootings after suspect confessed to one of them 01:55
Los Angeles Police Department detectives investigated two separate fatal shootings Tuesday night after a man in his 50s walked into a police station in Koreatown saying he had a dead woman in his car. I’m trying to put it together.
Officers responded to a tip from a man and arrived in the area of Berendo and 8th Avenue around 10:24 p.m., where they found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in her car. He was confirmed dead.
As police investigated the incident, the man admitted he had been shot in Mid-Wilshire earlier that day.
A man in his 40s riding an electric bicycle was shot multiple times in the 900 block of South Victoria Avenue around 4:15 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Police believe the shooting was motivated by street violence, but the circumstances surrounding the shooting are still unclear. Investigators say the suspect walked up to the victim, fired about five shots, and then left.
The suspect in the shooting is described as a bearded man in his 50s, wearing an orange jacket, and fled in a dark blue or dark purple sedan. A man from the 77th Police Station admitted to the shooting.
It is not yet known whether the woman who died in Koreatown, about two miles from the Mid-Wilshire shooting, was shot there or if the incident occurred elsewhere.
It is also unknown if the suspect has any relationship with the woman. Police are appealing to the public for information regarding the incident.
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