Three killed and four injured in shooting in Los Angeles

three people died and four were wounded this Saturday in a he resumed in an upper-class neighborhood in the American city of The Angels.

It was in the middle of the night, 2:50 am local time, and took place in the vicinity of Beverly Crestjust outside the popular Beverly Hills area.

Of the seven people killed, four were away from home and three (the deceased) they were in a vehicleThe local police reported it.

According to NBC, two of the victims were men and one was a woman. Of the wounded three men and a woman.

Police said the wounded are inside serious condition and were transported to a hospital located at the University of California (UCLA).

According to local television programs, such as ABC, several officers placed yellow tape around the area to prevent residents from entering the area where the event occurred.

Police are still investigating the incident the reasons are unknown and the circumstances leading up to the shooting.

The state of California, one of the most progressive in the United States, has been the scene of several shootings in recent days that have leapt to public opinion.

Last weekend, ten people were killed when a man started shooting inside a dance hall in the California town of Monterey Park, a suburb near Los Angeles with a majority Asian population.

Following that event, another shooting occurred Monday night in the California town of Half Moon Bay, in which seven people were killed.

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in the country, there have been 42 “mass shootings” so far in 2023 and more than 3,200 people have been killed by firearms. more than half of them by suicide.

GVA defines a mass shooting as one that ends in three fatalities, deaths, or injuries, excluding the perpetrator if he died or was injured during the event.

For the third consecutive year, in 2022, the United States has recorded more than 600 mass shootings in which at least four people were killed or injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive organization.

With information from EFE

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