2 Men Fatally Shot Outside Hollywood Club : Violence: Another double homicide, a stabbing and a possible gang incident bring toll to six lives.
Two young men were shot to death outside a Hollywood nightclub early Monday as a Los Angeles-area weekend came to a bloody climax that claimed at least six lives, including another double homicide.
Mike McDonagh, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, said the incident in Hollywood began around 2 a.m. when Eric Pierce, 25, of Los Angeles and Adrian Thames, 23, of Inglewood were asked to leave the Blak and Bloo club at 7574 Sunset Blvd. after an argument with some other men.
McDonagh said that when Pierce and Thames returned about 10 minutes later, one of the men with whom they had been arguing confronted them with a pistol.
“They tried to flee,” McDonagh said. “The guy didn’t say anything. He just opened fire.”
Mortally wounded, Pierce and Thames collapsed on the sidewalk in front of the club.
Other bullets shattered the front window of a hair salon two doors east on Sunset.
“There was a cabdriver parked out front, waiting for a fare, and a couple of more rounds came through his back window,” the detective said. “He lay down on the front seat, and he didn’t come back up until it was all over.”
The suspect, described only as a man in dark clothing, apparently fled on foot, police said.
Despite a number of witnesses in the club and on the street, little information was provided about the shooting and the incidents leading to it, McDonagh said.
“When you’ve got 100 spectators and no witnesses, it sometimes gets kind of frustrating,” he said.
About two hours later, in Pico Rivera, two brothers were found slain in their home when a co-worker came to pick them up for work.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said the bodies of Mark Anthony Reyna, 20, and Ruben Reyna, 16, were discovered in a bedroom of their home in the 9400 block of Mines Avenue.
Deputies declined to discuss the killings, except to say that both apparently had been shot to death in their sleep. Sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Fallis said the brothers had been dead for at least two hours when deputies arrived.
Deputy Fidel Gonzales, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department, said neighbors later recalled hearing what may have been gunshots near the house about 1:30 a.m.
“This was a straight-out murder,” said Fallis, adding that the shootings did not appear to be related to a burglary.
Sheriff’s homicide detectives said they were attempting to determine whether the brothers’ deaths were related to a shooting outside the home on Thanksgiving Day that left one man injured.
About 4 a.m. Monday, a young man with a stab wound in the chest was “mysteriously dropped off” at the emergency room of the County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles police said.
Despite efforts to save him, the man, who was not identified, died at the hospital a few minutes later.
A 32-year-old South-Central Los Angeles man was shot to death and another man was wounded in the foot late Sunday in what may have been a gang-related shooting, LAPD detectives said.
Witnesses said two suspects, both about 20 years old, approached the victims outside a liquor store at Figueroa Street and Century Boulevard about 10 p.m. Sunday. One of the suspects asked “What’s up, cuz?” before both suspects drew pistols and opened fire, police said.
Detectives said both suspects fled on foot.
One of the victims was pronounced dead at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. The other was reported in good condition at the hospital. Neither victim was identified.
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