Crime & Safety
Police Seek Suspect in Gang-Related Shooting Death at Hollywood Party
Officials are asking for information from the public about the shooting on North La Brea Avenue early Sunday.
Police are investigating a gang-related shooting that left a 22-year-old man dead and another person wounded at a party in Hollywood early Sunday morning.
Lorenzo Smith, a Los Angeles resident, was shot on the 1600 block of North La Brea Avenue around 3:10 a.m., said Officer Catherine Massey of the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood station.
Preliminary reports indicate that Smith argued with a man at the party and the man pulled out a handgun and shot him, said Officer Cleon Joseph, an LAPD spokesman.
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Officers found Smith with at least one shotgun wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Joseph said.
Paramedics rushed another person with non-life-threatening wounds to a hospital, Joseph said.
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Police urge anyone with information about the shooting to contact Hollywood homicide detectives at 213-972-2910 or 1-877-LAPD-24-7.
City News Service was used in compiling this report.
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