2 die in downtown Los Angeles drive-by shooting
An 11-year-old and a 19-year-old are killed near Staples Center in what police say may have been a gang-related incident.
An 11-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were fatally wounded Sunday evening a few blocks from Staples Center, victims of a drive-by shooting that police said may have been gang-related.
The victims were sitting on a lawn with others about 6:30 p.m. near Valencia and Connecticut streets when someone fired at the group multiple times from a passing gray Honda, police said.
The group scattered. The 11-year-old, whom police identified as Steven Munoz, ran around the corner to an apartment building in the 1400 block of West 11th Street, where a police spokeswoman said she believed he lived. The 19-year-old, whom the spokeswoman did not identify pending notification of next of kin, collapsed in an alley.
Both were taken to a local hospital where they died later Sunday.
ted.rohrlich@latimes.com
