A 35-year-old man who was fatally shot in the South Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles was identified Thursday by county authorities.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton Division were called at 11:54 p.m. Tuesday to Broadway and 54th Street, west of the Harbor (110) Freeway where witnesses told them an unknown assailant approached the victim and shot him several times, an LAPD spokeswoman told City News Service.
The victim, who the Los Angeles County Medical -Examiner’ office identified as Robert Pitts, was found on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics pronounced Pitts dead at the scene.
There was no suspect information.