Three dead, one wounded in Harbor Gateway apartment shooting

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LAPD officers investigate the scene around an apartment building in the 1600 block of West 205th Street, where three people were found dead. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Children watch police investigators working the crime scene after three people were found dead at an apartment building in Harbor Gateway. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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An LAPD officer holds crime scene tape at Harvard Boulevard and 204th Street to allow a school bus to turn around, after streets were blocked off around the area where three people were found dead at an apartment building in the 1600 block of 205th Street in Harbor Gateway. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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As police tape blocks off their street, neighbors watch investigators in the area where three people were found dead in Harbor Gateway. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Two men stand by the apartment building where three people were found dead in the 1600 block of 205th Street in Harbor Gateway. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

By Joseph Serna

May 10, 2013 7:02 AM PT

Three people were found dead Friday morning from a shooting in Harbor Gateway.

Los Angeles police received a 911 call about 5:35 a.m. from a resident reporting hearing eight or nine gunshots in an apartment building in the 1600 block of West 205^th Street. Police found three victims.

A fourth victim was discovered more than a block away, near Del Amo Boulevard and Western Avenue, covered in blood, said LAPD Officer Christopher No. That person, whose condition was unavailable, was taken to a hospital.

Authorities said a red Dodge Charger and a gray Ford Explorer were seen speeding away from the scene.

Friday’s deaths were the first homicides in the Harbor Gateway this year, according to a Times’ Homicide Report.

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