A man was shot and killed in an apparent gang hit as he was getting a haircut in a barbershop near MacArthur Park, police said Monday.
Domingo Reyes, 35, of Los Angeles, was in the Westlake neighborhood shop Sunday at 6:38 p.m. when an assailant entered and shot him three times, twice in the body and once in the head, said Officer Gregory Baek, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Reyes was pronounced dead at a hospital.
An investigation was continuing, but the shooting was believed to be gang-related, police said.
[Updated at 8:53 a.m.: The suspect was wearing a blue hoodie jacket with the hood up when he walked into Alberto’s Barber Shop at 730 S. Alvarado St. and shot Reyes as he sat in a barber’s chair getting his hair cut. No one else was hurt, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call LAPD homicide detectives at (213) 484-3650.
An earlier version of this post said the victim was not identified, but police later released Reyes’ name.
There was a shooting on the same street three years ago when a woman who ran a Salvadoran restaurant was discovered dead in her apartment at 725 S. Alvarado Street. Family members found Flora Fuentes, 71, dead on the floor with numerous stab wounds after she failed to show up the morning of Nov. 24, 2007, to open the business.]
— Patrick J. McDonnell
Map: There have been 84 homicides within two miles of the latest crime scene since Jan. 1, 2007, according to the Times’ Homicide Report database. Click for an interactive map of homicides in Los Angeles County.