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Three injured in stabbing in Vermont Square

First responders attend to one of three people injured in a stabbing attack in South Los Angeles.
First responders attend to one of three people injured in a stabbing attack Wednesday in the 1000 block of West 43rd Street near Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene.
(OnScene.TV)
By Leila MillerStaff Writer 
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Three people were taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after reports of a stabbing in Vermont Square, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD spokesman Tony Im said officers responded to the 1000 block of West 43rd Street about 3:40 p.m.

One person was taken into custody, he said. The condition of the injured people is unknown.

Im said the motive behind the stabbing was under investigation.

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Leila Miller

Leila Miller is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Mexico City. She joined the newsroom in 2018, where she spent several years covering criminal justice, including the Luz del Mundo sex abuse case, and was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the Conception boat fire off the Channel Islands. She moved to Mexico in 2021 and was a 2023 Livingston finalist for an investigation on how a centuries-old forensic test has been sending mothers in Latin America to prison for killing their newborns. Born in Argentina but raised in Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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