CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

By Carol J. Williams

Feb. 11, 2009 12 AM PT

A shooting near Exposition Park left two people critically injured Tuesday night and police searching for the gunmen, a Los Angeles Police Department officer reported.

The shooting at about 8:30 p.m. at 42nd Street and Walton Avenue was believed to have been gang-related, Officer Karen Smith said.

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Carol J. Williams

Carol J. Williams is former senior international affairs writer for the Los Angeles Times. A foreign correspondent for 25 years, she has won five Overseas Press Club awards, two Sigma Delta Chi citations and was a 1993 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She has served as Times bureau chief in Budapest, Vienna, Moscow, Berlin and the Caribbean. A native of Rhode Island and irrepressible Red Sox fan, Williams speaks Russian, German, French and Spanish, and has reported from more than 80 countries. She left The Times in 2015.

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