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The party had been promoted on social media as an unofficial
after-party for Hard Summer, a weekend techno-music festival
held at Hollywood Park, about 9 miles (14 km) away in Inglewood,
KTLA-TV reported.
Shortly after officers had cleared the area, police received a
report of shots fired around 1 a.m. When the officers returned,
they found one person dead and learned multiple people had been
struck by gunfire, Eisenman said in an email.
A male victim died at the scene and a female victim died at a
hospital, Eisenman said. Six people were taken to hospitals in
unknown condition, she said.
A man told KABC-TV that his 29-year-old son was one of the two
people killed.
“This senseless violence and loss of life is devastating and
those who are responsible must be held accountable,” Los Angeles
Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. “There will be no
tolerance for violence in this city. My thoughts are with the
victims and their families.”
There was no information about a suspect or a motive.
Investigators remained at the scene for hours.
Tyrone Laney, who lives in a temporary housing encampment around
the corner from where the shooting occurred, said the partygoers
returned about an hour after police broke up the gathering late
Sunday. He said he heard thumping music, and then, around 1
a.m., a burst of gunfire from what sounded like an automatic
weapon.
“It was pretty clear and loud. … You knew that if those bullets
landed in somebody, that they weren’t walking away from the
situation,” Laney told the Los Angeles Times.
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