Hollywood Shootings Raise Holiday Toll to 12

Two men were killed and another was critically wounded in a Hollywood shooting early Monday, raising the toll to 12 people dead and 15 injured during the violence-plagued Labor Day weekend in Los Angeles County.

The unexplained east Hollywood shootings started inside an apartment in the 1400 block of North Normandie Avenue about 12:30 a.m., according to police. One of the victims, a 32-year-old man, died inside the apartment. A trail of blood led to a second man, age unknown, who was found on the street. He was pronounced dead at County-USC Medical Center, police said.

A third shooting victim, described as a 22-year-old man, was discovered nearby, at the corner of Fountain and Normandie avenues. He remains in critical condition. Police said that he appeared to be an uninvolved bystander who was hit by a stray bullet as he was using a pay phone.

Details of the shootings were sketchy. Neighbors reported hearing several gunshots in the vicinity of the apartment building early Monday. Police said their only lead in the case is that a car belonging to one of the victims was stolen. The names of the three men were being withheld by authorities pending the notification of relatives.

In another incident on Monday, a Torrance man was found shot to death inside his truck, which was parked in the Carson area, around 2:30 a.m., according to sheriff’s deputies. There was no motive yet determined in the shooting death of Miguel Diaz Sandoval, 43, deputies said.

There are also no leads in the apparent murder of an unidentified 22-year-old man who was shot and killed during an argument outside of a South-Central Los Angeles apartment building late Sunday. Police said that the gunman fled after the shooting.

In other holiday violence, a man was critically wounded early Monday in South-Central Los Angeles by a gunman trying to steal his car, police said.

Another man was critically wounded late Sunday after several men robbed him and ransacked his car, police said.