Two people are dead and two more injured in four separate shootings in South Los Angeles County, authorities said Sunday.
In the first shooting, reported at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, a man was shot near downtown Long Beach, police Sgt. Brad Johnson.
The shooting, possibly gang related, happened in the 800 block of Cedar Avenue, he said .
The man had a gunshot wound and was considered non-critical when transported to a hospital, Johnson said.
The investigation is ongoing he said.
In another part of Long Beach, about two miles away, a 26-year-old man was found shot to death early Sunday morning, Johnson said.
The shooting was reported at 1:25 a.m. at 11th Street and Walnut Avenue, said Long Beach police Sgt. Brad Johnson.
The shooting was reported at about 1:25 a.m. at 11th Street and Walnut Avenue, he said.
“Officers responded to a shots call and found the subject down in the street with a gunshot wound,” Johnson said. “He was pronounced dead at the scene. No one is in custody.”
The victim was identified as 26-year-old Guillermo Iturralde of West Covina, said Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
In Compton, a man was wounded in a shooting that occurred at about 10 p.m. Saturday at 134th Place and Wilmington Avenue, said Sgt. M. Lopez of the Compton Sheriff’s Station.
The man was struck in “a non-critical area,” Lopez said. Two men who were with him were not wounded when the suspect walked up and fired at them.
The wounded man was transported to a hospital for treatment and the investigation continued, he said.
About a mile away from that, a man was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday morning.
The man was standing in front of a residence in the 900 block of North Evers Avenue with others about 1 a.m. when a dark-colored compact car drove southbound towards them. A person in the vehicle fired several rounds at the victim, said Deputy Amber Smith of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.
The victim was struck once in the upper torso by gunfire, Smith said.
Paramedics rushed the victim to an area hospital, where he died from his injury, she said. There was no other immediate information.
Sheriff’s homicide detectives asked anyone who saw the shooting attack to call them at (323) 890-5500.
— City News Service contributed to this report