Three people were killed and at least one person was injured during a multi-vehicle crash Sunday in South Gate, authorities said.
Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 2:10 a.m. to State Street and Tweedy Boulevard, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher, who said paramedics rushed two people to a hospital.
One person died at a hospital and two people died at the crash scene, according to a watch commander at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Century station. The sheriff’s department was handling the crash investigation.
The condition of the second person at the hospital was not immediately known.
The crash involved multiple vehicles with a person possibly trapped inside one vehicle, according to sources at the scene.