The Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Southwest Division is investigating a string of killings after three apparently unrelated shootings early Sunday. <\/p>\n
[Updated 7:52 p.m. <\/strong><\/em>A fourth fatal shooting was reported in South Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Two male suspects approached the victim, Ruben Analoc, 18, of Los Angeles, in the 4100 block of Compton Avenue near the Ross Snyder Recreation Center and opened fire, officials said. Analoc was hit in the head. No further details were available on the incident, which occurred about 1 p.m.] \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n The first occurred shortly after midnight when a 19-year-old man was shot to death as he stood in front of a residence on the 4500 block of South 3rd Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Police had no information about the suspect, but investigators believed it was gang-related, LAPD Officer Karen Rayner said. <\/p>\n The second shooting occurred at 3:50 a.m. near Abourne Road and Santo Tomas Drive in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South L.A. The slain victim was a man in his 30s who was seated in a sports utility vehicle when an unknown assailant shot him once in the head, Rayner said. <\/p>\n The third killing was believed to be gang-related and occurred at 4:30 a.m. near West 23rd Street and Cimarron Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Two brothers were standing on the sidewalk when two female assailants and two male assailants shot them multiple times.<\/p>\n One brother was killed and the other was in critical condition at a hospital this morning, Rayner said. <\/p>\n — Garrett Therolf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Southwest Division is investigating a string of killings after three apparently unrelated shootings early Sunday. [Updated 7:52 p.m. A fourth fatal shooting was reported in South Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Two male suspects approached the victim, Ruben Analoc, 18, of Los Angeles, in the 4100 block of Compton Avenue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}