Car-To-Car Shooting Kills 2 As Pedestrians Are Struck

LOS ANGELES, CA — Two people were killed Monday evening in the Baldwin Hills area as the result of a car-to-car shooting that led to two pedestrians being struck by at least one of the involved vehicles, authorities said.

Police responded about 8:30 p.m. to the 4800 block of West Rodeo Place, not far from the intersection of Rodeo Road and Crenshaw Boulevard and discovered the driver of a vehicle had been shot and a suspect had fled the scene, according to Officer Mike Lopez with the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section.

Fox11 reported that one of the reported pedestrians who was killed was riding a skateboard at the time of the crash and the other was on a bicycle.

Firefighters sent to the scene discovered one person was trapped beneath a vehicle, and another person had been shot nearby, according to Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

One of the patients was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Fox11 reported. Two others were pronounced dead at the scene, according to Humphrey, who said it was unclear if the dead victims included the person who was shot. Lopez described the victims who were killed only as two adult males.

No information was immediately available about the shooting suspect or suspects, who had left the scene by the time police arrived, and it was not immediately clear if the shooting was gang-related, Lopez said.

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