[symple_googlemap title=”Shooter takes out man at apartment complex” location=”San Pedro Street and 102nd Street, Los Angeles, CA” height=”300″ zoom=”16″]
A 35-year-old man was shot and killed early Saturday while standing in front of an apartment building in South Los Angeles.
A little after 1:50 a.m., a vehicle drove up to the apartment building in the area of San Pedro Street and 102nd Street, where a man got out of the vehicle and fired several shots at the victim, who was standing out front, said Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section.
The shooter got back in the vehicle and drove away. Paramedics arriving at the location pronounced the 35-year-old man dead at the scene, Im said.
It was not immediately known if the shooting was gang-related, he said.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the LAPD’s Southeast Station at (213) 972-7828.
—Staff and wire reports