Juan Morales, 18

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Juan Morales, 18, a young Latino man, was struck by bullets multiple times at Hartland Street and Woodman Avenue in Van Nuys, and died at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 6.

Morales was standing with his younger brother about 5:30 p.m. when a a white sport-utility vehicle pulled up, police said. The people inside yelled gang names and then one fired a gun, hitting Morales, who was taken to a local hospital and died in surgery there. The next day, Van Nuys detectives arrested four people in Palmdale in connection to the killing, and also seized from them a gun, casings, a car stolen in LAPD’s Rampart Division, and various stolen property. Two of those arrested are underage Latino boys. The other two are Latino men: Elder Robles, 18, and Alvaro Guerra, 23. All those arrested face adult murder charges, police said.