Two people were killed and six others were injured in an after-share for the Hard Summer Music Festival in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, police said.
Around 11 p.m. Sunday, a “big party” was closed in a warehouse in the 1100-place block after the police saw a person who may be armed with a firearm, said Los Angeles police officer Norma Eisenman. This person was arrested on the scene, she said.
The rally had been promoted on social networks as after unofficial feast for a hard summer, a music festival and Techno-Muno during the weekend in Hollywood Park, next to the Sofi stadium.
An article for After-Party on Instagram listed several DJs which had to run techno and homemade music.
Two people were killed and six people were injured early Monday during a shooting in downtown Los Angeles.
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Around 1 morning on Monday, police were sent to the region again after reports of shots, said Eisenman, and they found eight people.
A man was declared dead on the scene and seven other people were taken to the hospital, where a woman died of her injuries.
No suspects have been identified and an investigation is underway.
“This foolish violence and this loss of lives are devastating and those responsible must be held responsible,” said the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, in a statement. “There will be no tolerance for violence in this city. My thoughts go to the victims and their families. We will continue to work together to ensure the safety of the. ”
A reveler who did not want to be appointed for fear of reprisals said that he looked like “100 shots” had been drawn outside the event, bringing people out of the warehouse and dispersing in the street.
The parties and other illegal activities were a recurring problem in the warehouses in downtown Los Angeles.
In May, hundreds of people showed up for an illegal concert on the roof covering two car parks in the city center, with a group of them spreading later in the surrounding district. At one point that evening, the vandals in the crowd started painting an AA train and hammering the windows.
Paramedical paramedics carry an injured person during the Monday morning shooting.
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On Monday, the chaos which had exceeded the industrial area of the city center during the night had calmed down by the middle of the morning when the detectives traveled the area for evidence. Nearly 50 numbered yellow markers were on the ground, identifying the locations of the evidence, including the possible balls or the shell boxes.
The family and friends of those who were slaughtered gathered around a police cruiser where a medical examiner and officers placed an orange plastic bag containing articles collected to their loved ones. The group of seven people cry by looking in the bag filled with what seemed to be keys, pieces of fabric and other articles that they seemed to recognize.
A security guard who worked nearby said that the region has long been a destination for after-parties due to its location far from the residential areas. Many revelers refer affectionately to events like “after” and remain until the beginning of the next morning, he said.
Tyrone Laney, who lives in a temporary housing camp at the corner of the street where the shooting occurred, said revelers returned an hour after the police broke up her group on Sunday at 11 p.m. For hours, he said, he felt the beating music across the sidewalk while the other camp occupants were sleeping. Some time after 1 am, he and others heard shots at the rapid succession of what looked like an automatic weapon, he said.
“It was quite clear and noisy. … You knew that if these bullets landed to someone, they did not move away from the situation,” said Laney.
The police responded immediately, said Laney, and the block was quickly flooded with sirens, flashing lights and the whirlwind of helicopters hovering over it.
“It happened so quickly. … I thought it was perhaps a drive-by or someone rolled up for someone he was looking for,” said Laney.
The Hard Summer Music Festival, an event of a weekend featuring established and emerging music acts, took place for the first time in Los Angeles in 2007. A series of noise complaints from South Bay communities last year prompted the organizers and those responsible for Inglewood to mitigate the sound levels this year, in particular by changing where speakers were place.
Times SThe writer Taff Joseph Serna contributed to this report.