11-Year-Old Girl Slain on Porch in Drive-By Shooting : Violence: In what police are calling another random gang killing, a child is shot while sitting outside Huntington Park home with her father. Two friends are wounded.

Antonio Izquierdo was lounging in a hammock and gently cradling his 11-year-old daughter on the front porch of his Huntington Park home Friday night when he heard the shots.

He immediately wrapped his arms around the youngest of his 10 children, trying to shield her from the barrage of bullets. But it was too late. His “ mija ,” Erika Izquierdo, had been shot in the head and would later die. Just inches away, two of her friends lay bleeding on the porch after being hit.

“She was reminding me to give her the $15 for her violin class,” Izquierdo, 52, said, shaking his head while standing in front of his home Saturday. “I was like, ‘OK mija, don’t worry about it.’ ”

In what police are calling another random killing of a child by gang members, Erika and two of her friends, 15-year-old Luis Lopez and 14-year-old Adrian Garcia, were hit in a drive-by shooting in the 6300 block of Marconi Street. Both boys are in fair condition.

Erika, a fifth-grader at Miles Avenue Elementary School with dreams of playing the violin, died about two hours later at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

Minutes after Erika and her two friends were shot, the same gunmen attacked two men walking five blocks away near Stafford Avenue and Randolph Street, authorities said. Neither of the victims was apparently a gang member, police said.

Lt. Carl Heintz of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Huntington Park Division said Pedro Cuevas, 19, was shot in the thigh while his friend Raul Flores, 21, was hit in the lower back and in the right calf. Both men were listed in stable condition at County-USC Medical Center.

Heintz said Erika was resting in the hammock on the porch with her father at 7:15 p.m. Friday when three men in what looked like a dark Nissan Maxima pulled up and slowly crept by the house.

Erika’s older brother Alex said everyone thought those in the car were arriving for a Halloween party in the back yard, even though it had been canceled earlier.

But the unidentified suspects opened fire with a rifle, sending the five or six people on the porch scrambling.

“Nobody really had a chance to run,” Heintz said. “It was totally unexpected.”

Luis, who was shot three times, was listed in fair condition at County-USC Medical Center. Adrian, who was hit five times, was listed in fair condition at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

Alex Izquierdo, 15, was sitting a few feet away when he heard the shots. Police said about 12 rounds were fired at the porch. Alex “ducked and ran for cover,” he said, before realizing his little sister had been shot.

“I saw her laying on the porch and I was hoping she wasn’t hit,” he said, bowing his head slowly.

Heintz said there is gang activity in the area, but that there is no indication that the Izquierdos or anyone else at the house was affiliated with gangs.

“They probably confused them with some people who live around the corner,” said Erika’s brother-in-law, Carlos Betancourt.

Her death is the latest in a string of killings since 3-year-old Stephanie Kuhen was shot to death Sept. 17 in a Cypress Park alley after gang members allegedly opened fire on her family’s car when they made a wrong turn.