(Los Angeles) A shooting broke out during an evening after a music festival in downtown Los Angeles, killing two people and injuring other early on Monday, the authorities said.
The authorities intervened around 11 pm Sunday to end a “big party” after police saw an individual, possibly armed, entering a building in a city center in the city center, explained the Norma Eisenman agent. This person was arrested on the spot, she said.
The evening had been presented on social networks as an unofficial event after Hard Summer, a techno music festival organized the weekend in Hollywood Park, about 14 kilometers from there, in Inglewood, reported the local television channel KTLA.
Shortly after the premises were released by the police, the police were informed of shots fired around 1 a.m. Upon their return, the police found a dead and learned that several people had been affected by gunshots, said Mme Eisenman in an email.
A man died on the spot and a woman died in the hospital, she said. Six people were transported to hospital in an unknown state. A man told the Kabc channel that his 29 -year -old son was one of the two people killed.
“This foolish violence and these human losses are devastating and officials must account,” said the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, in a statement. “Violence will not be tolerated in this city. My thoughts go to the victims and their families. »»
There was no information concerning a suspect or a mobile. Investigators stayed on the scene for hours.
Tyrone Laney, who lives in a temporary camp a stone’s throw from the place of the shooting, said that revelers returned about an hour after the rally dispersion by the police on Sunday evening. He said he heard deafening music, then, around 1 a.m., a burst of gunshots from what looked like an automatic weapon.
“It was quite clear and strong. (…) We knew that, if these bullets touched someone, this person would not come out alive, “said the man Los Angeles Times.
