Two 33-year-old men were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the South Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles and an investigation of the shooting is underway Wednesday.
Los Angeles Police Department officers from the department’s Newton Division responded at approximately 10:50 Wednesday to 51st and San Pedro streets regarding a shots fired call. When they arrived at the scene, officers found one man who had been shot in the thigh and another in the leg, an LAPD spokeswoman told City News Service.
Witnesses told officers a group of men seen near the scene drove up to the victims and fired several shots at them, police said.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics took the first victim to a hospital in stable condition and the second man was treated at the scene.
The suspects drove away from the shooting in an unknown direction, police said.