3 dead, 2 wounded in possible murder-suicide in Panorama City
Three people were killed and two were wounded in Panorama City on Saturday night in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide, authorities said.
One man and two women were fatally shot inside an apartment in the 8500 block of Cedros Avenue around 7:30 p.m., said Officer J. Kim of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Mission Division.
Two other people were also shot and taken to a hospital, though Kim did not know the extent of their injuries.
Investigators believe the shooter was among the dead, and police are looking at the slayings as a murder-suicide, according to Kim, who said it was not immediately clear who pulled the trigger.
All of the victims were adults, Kim said.
The killings were part of a bloody weekend in Los Angeles County that left seven other people dead and five more injured in a series of shootings that started Friday afternoon in Compton.
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