Gang Violence Over Weekend Takes 6 Lives : Crime: One victim was a woman driving her daughter to a party and another was a man visiting from Modesto. No arrests had been made.

Gang-related violence claimed the lives of six people in the Los Angeles area over the weekend, including a woman who was shot and killed as she drove her daughter and some friends to a party being thrown by gang members, authorities said Sunday.

Gigi Swan, 53, died early Sunday after her car was pelted by gunshots fired by members of a rival gang, police said.

The Los Angeles woman’s 17-year-old daughter and four of the girl’s friends were not shot, but two of the girls suffered minor injuries when the car careened out of control and slammed into several parked cars.

Los Angeles police Detective Terry Wessel said Swan was ferrying the girls from one party to another in downtown Los Angeles, closely following a car filled with friends who are suspected gang members.

Wessel, of the LAPD’s anti-gang unit, said the two cars strayed into territory claimed by a rival gang. As they rolled past a cluster of the gang members standing on the sidewalk near Union Drive and 6th Street, one of the rival group opened fire with a handgun.

The first car was not hit by gunfire, but the car driven by Swan was riddled with bullets, Wessel said.

Swan, wounded once in the head, was taken by paramedics to the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, but doctors were unable to save her.

“Many of these mothers don’t even care about their kids. But she was apparently trying to keep an eye on them,” Wessel said of the victim. “She was just following a car through the wrong neighborhood.”

Swan was not the only innocent bystander felled by bullets over the weekend.

A Modesto man visiting family in Los Angeles was killed Friday evening when gang members mistook him for a rival and shot him.

Ramon Cocha, 25, was walking on a street just west of downtown when he apparently was caught in a confrontation between two gangs, police said. Cocha ran when he saw that one or two of the gang members had guns, officers said, but one of the gang members fired at the fleeing man, striking him in the chest.

Cocha died at the scene of the 9 p.m. shooting. The gang members fled in two cars, police said.

In the unincorporated Willowbrook area near South Los Angeles, a teen-ager was killed and two other people wounded late Saturday when a lone assailant armed with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd in a carport outside an apartment building, sheriff’s deputies said.

Ernest Bozart, 17, of Los Angeles, died at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. A 19-year-old woman was in critical condition and a 20-year-old man was in serious condition.

In South-Central Los Angeles, a 28-year-old man died early Saturday after he was shot several times in a drive-by attack. Lloyd Dickerson, of Los Angeles, was standing with reputed gang members in the 400 block of East 61st Street about 1:30 a.m. when gunshots erupted from a passing car, police said.

Dickerson was wounded in the chest and abdomen. He died at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

Phillip Childs, 30, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday as he stood with five other people outside a liquor store in the unincorporated Lennox area. The two gunmen fled in a car, sheriff’s deputies said. Investigators believe the gunmen fired three to eight shots as they drove by, but only Childs was struck.

A drive-by shooting also claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy near Silver Lake. Friends transported Jose Escobar to Childrens Hospital, where he died shortly after the shooting early Saturday morning.

There have been no arrests in any of the shootings, authorities said.