2 die in downtown Los Angeles drive-by shooting

An 11-year-old and a 19-year-old are killed near Staples Center in what police say may have been a gang-related incident.

By Ted Rohrlich, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2008

An 11-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were fatally wounded Sunday evening a few blocks from Staples Center, victims of a drive-by shooting that police said may have been gang-related.

The victims were sitting on a lawn with others about 6:30 p.m. near Valencia and Connecticut streets when someone fired at the group multiple times from a passing gray Honda, police said.

The group scattered. The 11-year-old, whom police identified as Steven Munoz, ran around the corner to an apartment building in the 1400 block of West 11th Street, where a police spokeswoman said she believed he lived. The 19-year-old, whom the spokeswoman did not identify pending notification of next of kin, collapsed in an alley.

Both were taken to a local hospital where they died later Sunday.

ted.rohrlich@latimes.com

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