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4 Dead, 5 Wounded in L.A. Horrible Night of Shootings
The city of Los Angeles experienced a horrible night Sunday as four people were killed and five others wounded in unrelated gang shootings over a seven-hour period, local TV reported Monday.
It all began around 8:30 p.m. local time Sunday, when a man was hit three times by gunfire at Sunset Boulevard and Descanso Drive in Silver Lake. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition, but the shooter, thought to be a gang member, is still at large, the CBS 2 TV reported.
Elsewhere, a man was shot just after 9 p.m. on South Denker Avenue, but he was described to be in stable condition in hospital.
Meanwhile, Ricardo Hernandez, 21, was shot to death on the Cairn Avenue in Rosewood, near Compton, shortly before 10:45 p.m. The shooter was not identified.
William Bernard Marky, 63, was fatally shot about 11 p.m. near the Valerio Street in Reseda. His son Matthew, 32, was taken into custody early Monday morning, police said.
About half an hour later, a man was shot to death in a residence in the 10th Street in San Pedro and the killer got away.
Shortly before 11:44 p.m. a 14-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was shot on Barton Avenue, near Vine Street in Hollywood. The youngster survived what apparently was a gang- related attack.
A 30-year-old woman, identified as Maria Villalzazo, was shot and killed at 46th Street and Honduras Street in South Los Angeles as she tried to get her father out of the line of bullets apparently fired by warring gang members.
Another person was wounded in a shooting at Melrose Avenue and Gramercy Place in Hollywood shortly before 12:45 p.m., but no other details were immediately available, the report said.
An off-duty Burbank police officer was hit and injured by flying glass as he drove a Chevrolet Tahoe north on the San Diego (405) Freeway, near Nordhoff Street in North Hills. Someone in another vehicle opened fire about 3:20 a.m. for unknown reasons.
The shootings, although unrelated, was an indication of the worsening social security in the city, which ranks among the nation's leaders in having more murders in the past year.
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