Crime & Safety
2 Killed in Glassell Park Drive-by Shooting
The victims are located around 4 a.m., police say.
Two people were killed Saturday morning in Glassell Park, police said.
The victims were located around 4 a.m. at the intersection of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Verdugo Road, said an officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Station.
CBS2 reported that the victims were both men and that they were shot while sitting in a parked SUV. A third victim, a female, escaped the vehicle with minor injuries.
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"We were coming home… well to my boyfriend’s house and a car pulled up and they shot us," Tiffany Lagunas told CBS2. "The driver, I guess, he’s dead… my boyfriend… um …I don’t know. I think he’s dead too."
According to the report, the actual shooting happened at Future Street and Cypress Avenue before the SUV travelled about a half mile to Eagle Rock Boulevard and Verdugo.
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One of the victims was 18, according to the report.
City News Service contributed to this report
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