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Bloody, Bloody Weekend: At Least 5 Murdered in L.A.
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Los Angeles started the weekend without any killings on Friday. Then came Saturday and Sunday which left five dead, four within a 12-hour period.
It first started on Saturday morning around 6 a.m. when 35-year-old Ching Tseng was walking on the 3300 block of West 6th Street, a couple blocks from Wilshire and Vermont. He was approached by a male Hispanic, approximately 25 years of age, who demanded Tseng’s money and vehicle, then shot Tseng and fled to a waiting car with three additional suspects, two males and one female, says the LAPD. Tseng later died at the hospital.
Later that night around 8:10 p.m., Samuel Leonard, 22, left a liquor store on the 1700 block of West Century Boulevard and as he was getting into his car, a male Black suspect came up to him and began shooting for no apparent reason. Leonard tried to run by collapsed on the sidewalk. The suspect was last seen driving a red pick-up truck.
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About 10 minutes later, according to the LA Times, a man was shot in West Adams as he was "apparently trying to pick up a car key from someone in the home." Someone in the driveway shot 58-year-old Larick Matheson as he got out of a car on the 2900 block of Rimpau Boulevard. Then around 11:45 p.m. in Hyde Park, one was killed and four were injured after a rifle wielding suspect exited a car and began shooting at a group of people standing in front of a home on the 6400 block of South 7th Street. 17-year-old Brandon Jamal Perry was shot in the face and later died. Two others were transported to the hospital and one was treated and released at the scene.
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On Sunday morning, a 43-year-old man was found dead by a citizen on the 3400 block of Drew Street in Glassell Park. Ilario Perez's death is being investigated as a gang crime.
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