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Watts: Louis Pickett Jr., 24

By Corina Knoll
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Louis Pickett Jr., a 24-year-old black man, was shot and killed early Sunday, Oct. 4, in the 2000 block of East 103rd Street in Watts, officials said.

Pickett was fatally shot about 1:40 a.m. while attending a party, said Los Angeles Police Officer Gregory Baek. Detectives believe the shooting was gang-related.

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His body was recovered near 103rd and Lou Dillon Avenue, about four blocks east of where the shooting is believed to have taken place.

-- Corina Knoll

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Pickett’s killing was one of five shootings Sunday in Los Angeles. They left one man dead and four hospitalized, two in critical condition.

The Times’ Corina Knoll has details about the other shootings on L.A. Now. Read ‘Several shootings overnight leave one dead.’

Click on the map image above to see more details of the shootings and street views of the blocks where they took place.

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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