LOS ANGELES – A car-to-car shooting in the Jefferson Park area near the University of Southern California killed a passenger in one of the vehicles, authorities said Monday.
The shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrews Place and Jefferson Boulevard, according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center.
The victim was a 30-year-old man, he said.
The mortally wounded man was driven to the Exposition Park area, according to ABC7.
From there, paramedics took him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the desk officer said.
There were three males inside the vehicle from which the bullets were fired, he said.
The USC Department of Public Safety tweeted at 8:43 p.m. that there was police activity on the south side of Exposition Boulevard at Vermont Avenue, that people should stay away from the area, but that no immediate threat existed.
A t 2:09 a.m. Monday, the department tweeted that the police activity had concluded and it was safe to resume normal activities.
