L.A. area street takeover violence continues with 2nd shooting in 24 hours

The second shooting during a Los Angeles area street takeover in two days left another person hospitalized early Monday morning.

Deputies responded to the latest street takeover report at Compton and Gage avenues in the Florence-Firestone area around 3 a.m., an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson confirmed.

L.A. County firefighters were also sent to the scene to extinguish a car that was found burning in the middle of the street after the takeover.

The emergency call was later updated when one person was found suffering from a gunshot wound and transported to a hospital in unknown condition, a department spokesperson told KTLA…

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