3 dead, 4 injured in the fourth shooting in the US this month in California: Report | World news

At least three people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting in California early Saturday morning.

Sgt. Frank Preciado of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the shooting happened shortly after 2:30 a.m. in Beverly Crest, an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood.

Of the seven people who were shot, four were standing outside. The three killed were in a car.

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Their identities have not been released. The injured were taken to hospital and are in critical condition.

Preciado said he did not have information on what led to the shooting, or if it took place at a residence.

This is the fourth mass shooting in California this month.

The shooting comes a week after a massacre at a nightclub in the Los Angeles area left 11 dead and nine wounded and days after a gunman opened fire on a pair of mushroom farms south of San Francisco. on Monday, shooting and wounding seven people. conscience. The killings have sparked outrage in the state, which has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws and one of the lowest fatality rates.

For the third straight year, the US in 2022 recorded more than 600 mass shootings in which at least four people were killed or injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive.