A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of killing two other teenagers and wounding a third in a Pomona park Friday afternoon, Pomona police said.
[Updated at 3:24 p.m.: Pomona police said this afternoon that one of the teenagers who they earlier reported had been killed was hospitalized but brain dead.]
Police said they got "numerous calls" from witnesses reporting the shooting that occurred shortly before 4 p.m. at Ted Greene Park at North Orange Grove and East La Verne avenues.
Officers arrived to find the two most seriously injured boys still at the park. Both died after they were transported to a hospital. The third youth was also treated for gunshot injuries and is expected to survive.
[Updated at 3:26 p.m.: The youth who died has been identified as 17-year-old Timmy Moore. The second teenager who was earlier reported to have been shot dead is brain dead, according to police, and has not been identified.]
The officers tracked down the suspect shortly after, they said. He was hiding behind a house at the southern edge of the park on North Orange Grove Avenue. They booked him into the Pomona Police Jail on suspicion of murder.
Detectives are seeking additional information. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to call them at (909) 620-2085.
–Jill Leovy