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BELLFLOWER, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A person was fatally shot in a parking lot outside St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, triggering an investigation and search for a suspect Saturday morning.
The incident occurred around 8:20 a.m. this morning at 13600 Bellflower Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
According to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Lt. Hugo Reynaga, the victim, who has not been identified, was found with a gunshot wound inside a white Audi that had been reported stolen in Lynwood. A woman was found sitting in the passenger seat, but she was not injured, Reynaga said.
At the time of the incident, a Pop Warner football game was taking place at the school’s stadium, next to the parking lot where the shooting occurred, according to authorities.
The victim was there to attend her son’s game, according to investigators. The boy was not with his father at the time of the shooting.
“There were people in the parking lot when it happened, no one else was injured other than the victim who was sitting in the driver’s seat of the white sedan,” Reynaga said.
Authorities did not provide a description of the suspect, but witnesses reported seeing the suspect’s vehicle, a white sedan, fleeing south on Bellflower Boulevard from the parking lot.
“We are looking for the driver and passenger of that suspicious vehicle that fled the scene,” Reynaga said. “From what we were told, the driver was not the shooter, but he was obviously driving the vehicle.”
It is unclear whether the shooting was an intentional attack. Reynaga said investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the parking lot.
‘It’s unusual, really, on a Saturday morning at a Pop Warner game,” Reynaga said. “We don’t know what the motive is and that’s what investigators are working to find out.”
No edges have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
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