Boy, 13, killed in LA shooting; 9-year-old girl wounded

By STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy was killed and a 9-year-old girl was wounded in a Los Angeles shooting near an elementary school. Los Angeles Police Officer Mike Lopez says a woman was also shot and wounded in Monday’s violence. The Daily Breeze newspaper reports that the boy and the woman were in a car in the Wilmington neighborhood in the southern part of Los Angeles around 4:45 p.m. when they were approached by at least two people who fired into the vehicle. The 9-year-old girl was struck by stray gunfire as she stood in a nearby schoolyard. She is in critical but stable condition. A description of the suspects has not been released.