The Los Angeles Police Department Friday will announce “multiple arrests” in connection with a shooting in Wilmington that left a 12-year-old boy dead and two others injured.
The shooting occurred on Dec. 6 at Denni Street and Blinn Avenue near Wilmington Park Elementary School, according to the LAPD. The suspects approached an SUV, striking the 30-year-old driver, passenger Alexander Alvarado and a 9-year-old girl who was on the playground at the nearby school.
After the shooting, the woman in the SUV managed to drive a short distance away, stopping at North Eubank Avenue near East Anaheim Street, where she and the boy were found by authorities, police said.
Alexander was pronounced dead at the scene, while the woman and girl both survived.
Alexander’s mother, Jenny Romero, said the wounded woman — her wife — and Alexander had just picked up Romero’s 10-year-old son from school. The younger boy was in the SUV when the shooting occurred, but was not injured. Romero said two people “popped out of nowhere” and one of them opened fire at the SUV.
“My wife (saw) his face, and she said he actually looked like my son, looked like a kid. So a kid shooting a kid,” Romero told NBC 4.