Bystanders Gunned Down in Drive-By : Violence: A teen dies and five others are wounded. Police say five of the victims were just walking down the street and were not gang members.

One teen-ager was killed and five other people were wounded, two critically, when alleged gang members cruising a south Los Angeles neighborhood Friday brazenly fired on pedestrians.

Killed was Milo Spears, 19, described by police as an innocent bystander. Four other men were injured in the afternoon attack on Woodlawn Avenue near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and a fifth was wounded 10 minutes later in a second shooting on East 43rd Street, about six blocks away.

Police identified the men injured in the first attack as Ray Dubose, 20, Alvin Boyland, 31, Robert Avery, 18, and Ricky Davis, 21.

Investigators found no ties between the victims of the first attack and any street gangs, said Officer Francine Spada, a Los Angeles police spokeswoman.

Terrance Smith, Spear’s cousin, said Spears was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “I know for a fact that he wasn’t into gangbanging,” Smith said. “I would have kicked his butt. I don’t go for that. None of them were into that stupid stuff.”

The person shot in the second attack was described by investigators as a possible gang member. His name was not released. He was treated at the scene for a gunshot wound to the hand and transported to White Memorial Medical Center. Information on his condition was not immediately available.

Spears was rushed to County-USC Medical Center, where doctors fought to save his life. The young man succumbed to massive chest wounds during surgery at about 2:40 p.m., a hospital spokeswoman said.

Dubose, who was shot in the back of the head, was rushed to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center and was in critical condition.

Boyland, Avery and Davis were transported to White Medical Center, Spada said.

Davis was listed in critical condition with a gunshot wound to his thigh. Avery, who was shot in the hand, and Boyland, who was shot in the arm, were listed in stable condition.

The first attack began when a gold and brown van turned the corner from King Boulevard onto Woodlawn Avenue about 12:30 p.m., said Spada. Someone inside the van yelled gang slogans and fired several shots at Dubose, Spears and Avery, who were standing outside of the Mini Market Liquor Store, police said.

“We just heard the shots--boom, boom, boom,” said liquor store owner Kim Soo, whose corner store had a bullet hole in one of its windows.

Another witness, Camille Howard, said she was sitting in a folding chair on the sidewalk along King Boulevard when she saw the three men rush around the corner.

“They were just gushing blood,” said Howard. “They came from around Woodlawn and fell in front of the liquor store.”

After the gunman sprayed the corner, police said, the van headed south for about five houses and then a gunman fired on Davis, who was walking north in the 4000 block of Woodlawn Avenue. Davis tried to duck behind a tree, said a witness, but was hit in the leg.

“The guys in the van were yelling, ‘What’s up, Blood?’ when they turned the corner,” said a 13-year-old who said he was standing on the porch of his Woodlawn Avenue house when the shooting started. “Then, when they got down the street, they saw Ricky (Davis). They said, ‘Don’t try to hide, fat boy.’ Then they shot him.”

The van continued up Woodlawn and a gunman shot Boyland, who was also walking along the street.

The sixth person was shot as he walked in front of a garage in the 100 block of East 43rd Street, said police.

Detective Bernie Skiles of the Newton Division said the second shooting was “definitely related” to the incident on Woodlawn Avenue.

Residents of the area said the van left Woodlawn Avenue and headed in the direction of the second shooting.

“They went up toward 43rd Street and turned the corner,” said Jimmy Hood, who watched the shooting rampage as he sat in his car.

Relatives and friends of the victims in the first shooting insisted that none of the men had gang connections.

Smith, Spears’ cousin, said that shortly before the shooting, Spears and Dubose left his home near King Boulevard to buy sodas at the liquor store.

“They had just ate breakfast, and they wanted something to drink,” Smith said. “I heard the shots from my house--about five of them--but I didn’t pay any attention to them.

“A few minutes later, this little kid comes to my door telling me my cousin had got shot.”

Times staff writer George Ramos contributed to this report.