Another mass shooting in California

At least three people died and four were injured on Saturday in a shooting in an upper-class neighborhood in the US city of Los Angeles, local police reported.

The shooting occurred in the middle of the night, at 2:50 a.m. (local time), in the Beverly Crest neighborhood, right next to the popular area of Beverly Hills.

Of the seven people who were shot, four were outside a home and three (the deceased) were inside a vehicle, police reported.

According to NBC, two of the fatalities were men and one was a woman. Of the injured, three were men and one was a woman.

Police indicated that the injured are in serious condition and were transported to a hospital at the University of California (UCLA).

According to local television shows, such as ABC, several agents are at the scene and placed yellow tape around the area to prevent pedestrians from entering the area where the event occurred.

The motives and circumstances that led to the shooting are unknown.

The state of California, one of the most progressive in the United States, has been the scene in recent days of several shootings.

Last weekend, ten people lost their lives when a man began shooting inside a dance hall in the Californian town of Monterey Park, a suburb near Los Angeles with a majority Asian population.

On Monday night there was another shooting in the

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in the country, so far in 2023 there have been 42 “mass shootings” and more than 3,200 people have died from firearms fire, more than half of them by suicide.

GVA defines a mass shooting as one that ends with three victims, whether dead or wounded, not including the perpetrator of the attack if he died or was injured during the event. – EFE News agency