Several shootings overnight in Los Angeles leave one dead, police say

A rash of shootings occurred overnight in South Los Angeles, leaving one man dead, Los Angeles Police Officer Gregory Baek said.

• An 18-year-old man was in stable condition after being shot Saturday about 10:30 p.m. near Wilmington Avenue and East 97th Street. He was shot in the left shoulder and right leg and was taken to a hospital.

• About 15 minutes later, a 20-year-old man was shot and injured. The victim was in his vehicle in the 10400 block of South Broadway when four suspects in a silver sedan drove by and shot him in the forehead. He was transported to a hospital, where he remains in stable condition.

• About 11:40 p.m. Saturday, two suspects shot a man in his 20s in the 200 block of East 69th Street. The victim was struck in the upper torso and is hospitalized in critical condition.

• A 24-year-old man was fatally shot about 1:40 this morning while attending a party in the 2000 block of East 103rd Street. The victim was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Detectives believe the shooting was gang-related.

• About the same time, another man was shot behind the ear while leaving a party near Hoover Street and West 123rd Street. The victim, whose age was unknown, drove himself to a hospital, where he is in stable condition.

Baek called the number of shootings in the area unusual. “Normally we have one or two on Saturday night,” he said. “Luckily only one victim died.”

-- Corina Knoll

Comments

[donalds]

When will Law Enforcement re-think their strategy on gang violence? More should be done to stop recruitment. If stalking laws were changed to hold stalkers/recruiters accountable, maybe we can lower the number of kids getting recruited and save lives. If laws were changed and stalking laws enhanced to include all stalking criminals, we might be able as a community effort to help. Trained volunteers to work with the people being stalked or recruited and the police and DA to document the stalkers activities and hold them accountable.

[Wedge]

"Luckily only one victim died."

Lucky would have been if no one died. The person that died isn't lucky at all.

[robert evans]

In spanish Los Angeles means the city of angels and with all the shooting that you have you will need all the angels you can find or muster up----hope they are not armed and have any beefs with anyone!

[jack]

donald that's all well and great if the laws are changed but what do you do when the police aren't around?? typical viewpoint of a leftist "the government can solve everything." the problem here is that the communities TOLERATE the gang behavior and nothing is done within the communities that would require responsibility for these gang members' actions. the laws aren't the problem, the people are.

[jan]

robert, you are an unfortunate individual.

[Andrew]

How silly to blame law enforcement for these shootings and then to, in the substance of your comments, keep saying 'if laws were changed'... Law enforcement enforces existing laws and can't conjure up new ones. So, stop blaming law enforcement and take it up with the political establishment. Law enforcement was responding to all this nonsense and filling out reams of paperwork about it while you were tucked safely asleep far, far way.

It's ridiculous that law enforcement should be blamed on any level for this violence. It starts with families ... and the lack of father figures--present, real or positive--to get kids off to the right start ... and is abetted by this excuse making. It's just sad that the first father figures many of these kids have is a gang recruiter and the next is the deputy sheriff hauling them before the third--a superior court judge. Start the kids off right and you'd have a lot less of this nonsense.

[Time for change]

I totally agree with you "donalds". We need to focus on curbing the recruitment of young people into this lifestlye. Let all the old O.G.'s die out and there will be no one to replace them. In the meantime continue with the gang raids.

[hi]

Luck is if all the gangmembers died

[dee]

With these shooting starting up again , you will notice that our local
Politicians will be asking for more funds, but the funds are not
stopping the gang violence. When will the pepole wake up ?

[wingswest]

I wonder who is going to pay for all these hospital bills, The NAACP?

[andrew nelson]

The problem with passing laws is that people have to want to obey them. That doesn't seem to be the case with gangs, drugs, guns, or violence. This is going to sound pretty bizarre, but if you just quit using drugs, the demand goes down. If the demand goes down, the business goes down. If the business goes down, then the turf wars stop. If you want to curb violence, curb the recreational drug use on the high end. The best thing that the liberal upper class in Los Angeles can do to help is switch to alchohol.

[Hobo Mike]

+1 Wedge!

[krista]

so sad. how have we let these communities fall through the cracks. children are exposed to these amounts of violence, and then have to go to school on monday morning and try to concentrate? no wonder los angeles have the drop out rates that we have.

[Nomore]

The only way to root the problem out over time is to, take child welfare serious, most of the gang bangers are a product of generational activity, kids growing up watching their parents, or other close family members interactive relationship with gang life. So, It is hard to say dont do this if they are watching the parents, uncles, and aunts do it.

If a child was being battered at home, the county would step in, the same principal need apply, its cost effective over the long term, reducing crime, and giving kids a chance to become productive members of society. With best case scenarios forcing the parents to be responsible.

[MdW]

Ingorance is not bliss, if an entire government can be dismantle and a new one put in its place right before your very eyes, don't you know that gang violence can be stopped if the powers that be wanted it stopped. As far as some are concerned this is serving a purpose and as someone stated this is reasoning for more $$$$$ to added to the city budget. THINK PEOPLE

[The Greatest]

They should just let everyone carry a gun and let the gangmembers just kill themselves. it would be a great way to control population.

[jwzalesky]

I love LA !!! It's such a nice, peaceful place to raise a family.

I've only lived here a couple of months & I can see that everyone gets along so well. I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning. It almost reminds me of Mexico.

Are the Crips the Red or the Blue? I want to make sure I don't offend any of those nice kids on my block.

I love LA. I wonder why none of those white folks don't come down to live in my neighborhood 98th & Fingeroa.

[LEXUSRY]

I WISH WE CAN SEND IN THE ARMY AND FLUSH OUT THESE LOSERS SO WE CAN HAVE A BETTER LIFE. TIRED OF WATCHING TAXPAYER DOLLARS WASTED EVERY DAYS FORM THESE GANG BANG

[LIV3LOV3LIF3]

SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS MAKE SINCE AND SOME DON'T. IF WE AS A COMMUNITY AND UNITY STOP BASHING ONE ANOTHER AND STOOD UP AND OUT TO HELP OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH OUR COMMUNTIES THEN WE COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I'M A PRODUCT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE YOUNG MAN WAS SHOT AND THERE IS SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD BUT ITS WHAT WE AS A COMMUNITY TEACH OUR KIDS. PEOPLE IT STARTS EARLY. WE CAN PUT A END TO GANG VIOLENCE. I DON'T WANT TO READ OR SEE NOBODY ELSE THAT I KNOW LOSE THERE LIFE TO GANG VIOLENCE. I'VE LOSE ENTIRELY TO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, OR SOMEONE OF MY COMMUNITY. SO NOW ANOTHER FAMILY HAS TO GRIEVE. A MOTHER HAS TO CRY BECAUSE HER SON IS NO LONGER HERE AND FATHER WITH HIS HEAD DOWN BECAUSE HIS SON IS NO LONGER HERE FOR THEM TO SAY I LOVE YOU TO OR TO HIS SMILE ONE LAST TIME. KIDS LEFT WITHOUT A FATHER TO HOLD THEM AND TEACH THEM RIGHT FROM WRONG. MY HEART AND BLESSINGS GOES OUT TO ALL BUT ESPECIALLY TO THAT FAMILY.

[will]

I CAN'T CONTROL THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE

[David]

I do not feel sorry for these people. They deserve everthing they get. How is that "No Snitches" thing working out for you? See what happens when you do not cooperate with law enforcement when a crime happens?

[Louie R.I.P.]

"Luckily one victim died," what type of comment is that?! That one victim was someone I knew personally. Baek should be more careful about the words or comments that leave his mouth. Louis family and friends are deeply sadden by this unfortunate event, to hear that statement just angered me greatly inside. Words can't explain how I feel about this situtaion. Most people are so insensitive! Police are not to blame ignorance is to blame. Ignorance should not leave anyone's mouth. Simply ridiculous!

[MZ.KLASSI]

HOW AND WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY LUCKILY ONLY ONE PERSON DIED? YOU DUMB IGNORANT ASS PEOPLE....THAT ONE WHO LUCKILY DIED IS MY COUSIN AND THE INSESNSITIVITY AND REMARKS THAT SOME OF YOU RUDE NOBODY'S LEFT OH GOD IS GOING TO GET YOU. I HOPE THAT THEY HURRY UP AND FIND WHO DID THIS TO MY COUSIN MY FAMILY IS IN GREAT PAIN..LIL LOUIE DID NOTHING TO NO ONE AND TO TAKE HIS LIFE LIKE THAT OH I HOPE WHOEVER DID IT ROTTS IN HELL!!!! SIGNED THE LOVE OF A COUSIN ~KLASSI~