Nickerson Gardens Shooting in Watts Leaves One Dead

A man believed to be in his 30s was killed in a shooting at the Nickerson Gardens public housing development in Watts, authorities said Monday.

The shooting was reported at 10:22 p.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of West 114th Street at Compton Avenue, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman.

The man was neither conscious nor breathing when paramedics arrived at the scene but they took him to a hospital and he was pronounced dead there, she said…

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