Overview
- Shots rang out around 1 a.m. at an unauthorized warehouse party in downtown LA that officers had cleared hours earlier after arresting one attendee for gun possession.
- A man was pronounced dead at the scene and a 52-year-old woman died in hospital, alongside six other attendees wounded, two critically.
- The gathering, promoted online as an unofficial Hard Summer festival afterparty, was unaffiliated with the main event, according to festival organizers.
- Investigators have seized at least six firearms from the scene and made no additional arrests or identified a motive.
- The LAPD is appealing to witnesses to come forward as officials continue probing late-night gun violence at unsanctioned events.