4 Shot At Anti-Gang Violence Event In South LA

SOUTH LOS ANGELES -- Police today are investigating what they believe is a gang-related shooting in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of South Los Angeles that left four people wounded.

Los Angeles Police Department officers were monitoring an event at 11:05 p.m. Thursday at the Algin Sutton Recreation Center at 8805 S. Hoover St. when they received a shots fired call, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.

Officers found four victims -- three men and one woman -- with gunshot wounds near the recreation center. The victims were taken to a hospital, with one of the men in critical condition. Police said the other three were in stable condition.

The female victim, 51, and one male victim, 65, were hospitalized in stable condition. A 23-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition, police confirmed. The fourth victim was later discovered after self-transporting to a local hospital. That victim was also in stable condition, according to police.

The suspects fled in a vehicle in an unknown direction. No description of the suspects or the vehicle was provided.

-- City News Service