Police: At least 3 dead in latest Calif. shooting
At least three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting near Beverly Hills, California, early Saturday, police said.
The Los Angeles Police Department said that the shooting took place at a short-term rental at around 2:30 a.m.
Police responded to multiple calls of “a shooting with people down,” Sgt. Bruce Borihanh said Saturday. He said police were investigating whether there was a party or other gathering at the residence when the shooting happened.
Borihanh said two of the people who were wounded were in critical condition and the other two were in stable condition. He said that officials were waiting for the coroner to identify those who were killed. Police did not provide the gender or ages of those killed or wounded.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded at 2:55 a.m. to the shooting. Responders pronounced three people dead at the scene and took two people to the hospital, said Margaret Stewart, a department spokesperson.
She said that about 15 minutes later, authorities received a call from a different hospital where two people who were wounded in the shooting had taken themselves. That hospital was not equipped to treat their injuries, and they were transported to another hospital, Stewart said.
This month in the United States, there have been at least 43 shootings in which four or more people were wounded or killed, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group.
The deadliest shooting this year took place Jan. 21 at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California. Eleven people were killed. Two days later, seven people were shot dead in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.