California mass shooting: Sgt. Frank Preciado of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the shooting occurred just after 2:30 p.m. in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Of the seven people who were shot, four were standing outside. All three killed were traveling in a vehicle. His identity was not released. Those who were injured were taken to the hospital and their condition is critical.
Preciado said he did not have information on what prompted the shooting, or if it occurred at a residence.
This is the fourth mass shooting in California this month. The shooting comes a week after a massacre at a dance hall in a Los Angeles suburb that killed 11 people and injured nine and a gunman opened fire on a couple of mushers south of San Francisco on Monday , in which seven people were killed and injured. One.
The killings have dealt a blow to the state, which has some of the toughest firearm laws in the country and one of the lowest rates of gun deaths.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, for the third straight year, the US will record more than 600 mass shootings in 2022, killing or injuring at least four people.