After a mass shooting last week that left five bystanders injured, the City of Los Angeles has installed fencing that now continues to stretch across multiple city blocks along Alvarado Street and around the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station, displacing dozens of longstanding street vendors along the way.
At around 1 AM on January 22, Los Angeles police officers responded to a radio call of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 600 block of Alvarado Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
“A male suspect walked up to a group of individuals and opened fire with a handgun,” the LAPD alleged in a news release. “Five victims were struck by gunfire as a result,” in addition to the shooter being shot and injured.
LAPD detectives determined that there were an additional two shooters at the location and are asking the public to help locate them.
“It is unknown at this time if they were shooting at each other or the gunfire was directed only towards the victims,” the LAPD said.