Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed attempted murder charges against four suspects for their alleged roles in a mass shooting in South L.A. late last month, an incident police say was gang-related and injured a group of bystanders.
Los Angeles police said in a report that the six victims, who appeared to have been unhoused, were standing near the corner of 74th and Figueroa streets on the afternoon of Sept. 25 when gunfire broke out between two sets of suspected gang members. One group arrived to the confrontation in a vehicle and several suspects opened fire before fleeing, police said.
Five of the victims were women, four of whom are between the ages of 39 and 63, and one was a 36-year-old man, police said. The age of one female victim was not known.
The victims were treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries, police said. Two others were also caught in the crossfire but unharmed, police said, which led to a total of eight counts of attempted murder filed this week against the suspects.