Police Saturday are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a 36-year-old man near the Metro K Line Station in Leimert Park in what detectives say was a gang-related homicide.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division were called around 12:18 a.m. to 4330 S. Crenshaw Blvd. where they located the victim suffering from gunshot wounds to the head, an LAPD spokeswoman told City News Service.
A Metro spokesman said the parking lot where the victim was found is owned by the city’s Dept. of Transportation.
Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were called to the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
There was no suspect description.
Detectives are treating the shooting as a homicide and say it was gang-related, police said.