UPDATE: A man and woman have been arrested in connection with at least one of the shooting attacks.
The Coroner’s Office Sunday identified a 33-year-old man who was killed along with three others who were wounded in a carjacking and series of shootings in Pico Rivera, Whittier and La Mirada, authorities said.
The man was identified as Jose Sahagun, of Norwalk, according to the coroner’s office.
The carjacking was reported at 2:15 p.m. Saturday in the Pico Rivera area, according to Deputy Ryan Rouzan of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
The carjacked vehicle was found abandoned at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Amelia Mayberry Park, at Painter Avenue and Lakeland Road in unincorporated South Whittier.
The suspects were described as a man and a woman.
Someone in the car began shooting at people about 4 p.m. Saturday in Pico Rivera, sheriff’s officials said. The exact location was not available.
More shootings occurred in other locations.
One was at about 4 p.m. Saturday at Santa Gertrudes Avenue and Alicante Road in La Mirada, where Sahagun was wounded and taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he died at 4:51 p.m. Saturday, according to an Orange County coroner’s official.
Sheriff’s officials said at least four shooting victims were taken from multiple locations to hospitals for treatment, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher.
A shooting at about 8 p.m. Saturday in Santa Fe Springs was also being investigated as related to the others. It was at the Budget Inn near the Santa Ana (5) Freeway and Carmenita Road, Deputy Kelvin Moody of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau said.
There was no word if anyone was wounded at the Budget Inn.
— City News Service