Gunshot Victim Found Dead In Palms Parking Lot

LOS ANGELES, CA — A 40-year-old man was found fatally shot inside a vehicle in a Palms parking lot across from Sony Pictures Studios Monday morning.

Police responded to the 10200 block of Washington Boulevard, near the Culver City line, at around 8:05 a.m., a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman told Patch.

Officers arrived to find a 40-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the head inside the vehicle. He was not conscious and not breathing, according to police.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Aerial footage aired by CBS Los Angles showed the vehicle — with a shattered passenger-side window — properly parked in a spot between two other cars.

Police told the station that there was evidence at the scene that several shots were fired and the suspect was on foot.

A woman who said she is the girlfriend to the man who was shot told NBC Los Angeles that she spoke on the phone with him Monday morning.

"I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone when he just told me he was going to go into work already," the woman said. "We were about to hang up when I heard him say, 'Hey, hey," and that was the last thing I heard from him. I didn't hear anything else. Somebody else answered telling me he had been shot in the head."

The shooting is under investigation.