Four Slain In Two East Los Angeles Shootings
Shootings Not Connected, Authorities Say

POSTED: 5:55 pm MDT March 31, 2008
UPDATED: 8:36 pm MDT March 31, 2008


LOS ANGELES -- Sheriff's detectives said two fatal shootings that occurred within 20 minutes of each other and blocks apart in East Los Angeles on Monday are apparently not connected.

Two victims were killed in each attack, sheriff's deputies told local station KNBC.

One shooting, reported at 1:20 p.m., occurred in the 5100 block of East Olympic Boulevard.

The other attack, reported at 1:37 p.m., happened in the 1200 block of South Herbert Avenue, Deputy Maribel Rizo said.

All of the victims are Latino men, according to sheriff's deputies.

The suspects at the Olympic Avenue address -- Jesse's Auto Sales -- took two vehicles.

One was a gray four-door 2000 Jeep Cherokee with the license plate 4LVE195, and the other was a four-door 2001 Dodge with the license 7Z41469.

Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter said that according to reports from the scene, the shooting at the home was gang-related, while the other was a carjacking.

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