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Two men and a woman were shot dead in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood just a week after 18 were killed in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, as California sees its sixth mass shooting in a month.
The three victims who died were reportedly found inside a car in front of a $3 million home.
Four others were wounded in the shooting outside the home on Ellison Drive in the upscale Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Two were taken to hospital before police arrived, while two others were transported by emergency services, according to ABC 7. All four are in critical condition.
LAPD Sgt. Bruce Borihanh said the shooting occurred outside the home, which is believed to have been used as a short-term rental.
It is unclear what led to the shooting and the suspect remains at large.
Two men and a woman were shot to death outside a home on Ellison Drive in the upscale Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The three deceased victims were reportedly found inside a car.
Four others were also shot and seriously injured. The shooter is still at large and it is unclear what started the deadly incident.
The shooting occurred outside a home (pictured) on Ellison Drive. It is believed that it was rented as a short-term property.
The fatal shooting is the sixth mass shooting in California this month.
The Saturday morning shooting follows a massacre at a Monterey Park dance hall last week on Lunar New Year that left 11 dead and nine wounded, as well as shootings at two Half Moon Bay farms that left seven dead. and one wounded.
Huu Can Tran, 72, was banned from the ballroom about five years ago for molesting women and being too ‘arguable’ before the Monterey Park shooting.
Tran fired 42 rounds at the ballroom Saturday night, before driving to the nearby club where he was disarmed.
Police also revealed Thursday that the weapon he used in the mass shooting was a Cobray model CM11-9, while a .308 caliber bolt-action rifle was found at his home.
A day later, Chunli Zhao, 66, a Chinese farm worker, shot dead seven of his co-workers.
The shootings took place at two separate locations in Half Moon Bay, with four shots at a facility run by Concord Farms and three at Mountain Mushroom Farms two miles away. Authorities are not sure who was attacked first.
Even though this is the sixth mass shooting in a month in California, crime is down 13 percent overall in Los Angeles, compared to the same period last year.
The children were present at the time, because some of the workers lived on site with their families.
An eighth person was shot and injured and was airlifted to Stanford Medical Center.
Zhao is expected to be charged with seven counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, firearms enhancement and one count of “multiple murder.” He is being held without bail.
The weapon used in the attack was a legally purchased semi-automatic pistol. Investigators have not publicly said what the motive for the shooting was, but San Mateo County Sheriff’s spokesman Eamonn Allen said signs point to workplace violence.
The shooting comes shortly after 18 people were killed in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay by Huu Can Tran (left) and Chunli Zhao (right), respectively. Tran killed 11 people in a dance hall, while Zhao killed seven of her co-workers.
In another unrelated mass shooting in California earlier this month, six people were shot to death in a central California home in what police described as a “horrific massacre.”
The victims included a teenage mother and her baby, who were shot execution-style. The baby was found cradled in her mother’s arms as she tried to run away with her infant son.
Authorities are looking for at least two suspects in what appeared to be gang-related slayings, sheriff’s officials said.
The back-to-back murders have dealt a blow to the state, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and the lowest rates of gun deaths.
For the third year in a row, the US recorded more than 600 mass shootings in 2022 in which at least four people were killed or injured, according to the Gun Violence File.
Despite the increase in mass shootings this month, crime is down 13 percent overall in Los Angeles, compared to the same period last year.