New Year's Tragedy: Woman Killed, Four Wounded in Los Angeles County Shooting
Fatal shootings in Los Angeles County on New Year's Day left one woman dead and four injured. The cases are under investigation as police search for suspects.
A woman was killed and four people were wounded in a shooting in Los Angeles County shortly after the arrival of the new year, according to police reports. The Hawthorne Police Department responded to a shooting report around 12:30 a.m. Monday near a shopping mall on Crenshaw Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue. One male victim with gunshot wounds was transported to a hospital, while four other victims arrived at area hospitals by other means.
An adult female victim was later pronounced dead and one of the others was listed in critical condition, according to KABC-TV. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the shooting, and there were no immediate arrests made. Hawthorne, a part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area in southwestern Los Angeles County, has been rocked by the tragic incident.
Authorities are also looking into a separate shooting early Monday at a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles that killed two people and wounded three others, one of them critically. The circumstances leading up to the shooting remain unclear, and no suspect information is immediately available, according to police Officer Sandra Olivaras. The investigation is ongoing.