Two children, 4 and 10, were shot dead on a busy Los Angeles sidewalk Sunday afternoon. The man police believe did it, possibly their own father, turned the gun on himself moments later.
It happened just before 1 p.m. on Venice Boulevard at Catalina Street, in the Harvard Heights neighborhood. LAPD officers were dispatched at 12:49 p.m. and found three people down. Both kids died at the hospital. The suspect survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound and is in custody.
“We have a woman, a child, and then the main suspect down. Suspect’s moving, has a gun right next to him.”
LAPD dispatch audio, from the CrimeRadar scanner transcript
Police have not named the shooter and have not said what set him off. Investigators believe the children may have been his own, per NBC, but LAPD has not confirmed the relationship.
A Metro bus was rolling through at the time, and its cameras may have caught the shooting. LAPD says there is no ongoing threat to the community.
A taped-off boulevard and a midday crowd watching it all unfold. Two kids are gone, and the man who may have been their father shot himself.
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