4 Hurt in Drive-By Shootings

Four people were wounded early Monday in two drive-by shootings that authorities say may be gang-related.

The second incident, at a street corner near Anaheim, may have been in retaliation for the first shooting less than 25 minutes earlier and two miles away in neighboring Stanton, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials.

None of the victims, whose names were withheld, suffered life-threatening injuries, according to Sheriff’s Lt. Jay Mendez.

The first spray of gunfire came at 1:20 a.m. as a Chevrolet Impala drove past a knot of teen-agers standing near the curb in the 10600 block of Court Street in Stanton.

Deputies said gunshots fired from the primer-gray car wounded two Stanton boys, ages 15 and 16, and a 16-year-old girl from Midway City.

The three teen-agers were taken to area hospitals for treatment of gunshot wounds in their legs.

About 25 minutes after the first shooting report, authorities were summoned to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where a 23-year-old man had turned up in the emergency room with a single gunshot wound to the back, according to investigators.

The man, who is believed to live in Orange, told deputies that he was wounded near the corner of Gilbert Street and Katella Avenue in an unincorporated county island just north of the Garden Grove city border.

The injury did not require surgery, according to Sheriff’s Lt. William E. Leonard.

An investigation was continuing.