Teenage girl killed in walk-up shooting at apartment; gunman at large
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a gunman who walked up to a teenage girl in Willowbrook on Wednesday night and shot her to death.
The 15-year-old girl was standing in the stairwell of an apartment complex in the 11900 block of South Wilmington Avenue about 11 p.m. when a man walked up to her, “produced a handgun and fired one time…hitting her in the upper torso,†according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.
She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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The girl, who was not immediately identified, had gotten into an argument with someone earlier in the evening and sheriff’s investigators are looking for possible links, KTLA reported. The gunman, who fled on foot, appeared to be in his 20s, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The shooting is the fourth homicide of 2014 in Willowbrook, according to the L.A. Times’ Homicide Report. In the last 12 months, Willowbrook has been the seventh deadliest of L.A. County’s 270 neighborhoods, according to an L.A. Times analysis of homicide data for that period.
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