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Francisco Garcia, 21, was walking along a street with friends
at about 2 a.m. when two vehicles pulled up, a man got of one
vehicle, smashed a beer bottle on the ground and began screaming
at Garcia, said Juan Santa, a detective for the Los Angeles
Police Department.
The man returned to one of the vehicles, got a handgun and fired
at Garcia, Santa said. The suspect fled and Garcia was
pronounced dead at the scene, Santa said. Police are still
looking for the suspect, described as a Hispanic male.
Santa say there had been some sort of dispute between Garcia and
the other man but he was not sure what it was about. Santa said
the shooting was especially tragic given that Garcia had been in
Afghanistan, where many Americans have died in conflict.
“I think it’s a terrible thing for a soldier to go out there and
put his life on the line the way that he did, only to come home,
be with his friends and then be dead,” Santa said.
The shooting happened in northeast Los Angeles, known as the San
Fernando Valley, Santa said.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Editing by Dominic
Evans)
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