Two men are shot and killed in North Hills while out walking, police say

Two men who were out walking were killed this weekend in separate shootings just a few blocks apart in the San Fernando Valley, police said Monday.

Jose Zeron, 37, was walking home about 4 a.m. Saturday in the 15500 block of Nordhoff Street when he was gunned down, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

A dark, four-door vehicle pulled up next to Zeron and another man, and the vehicle slowed to a near-stop, police said. The driver, who wore a dark hooded sweatshirt, fired two gunshots, police said.

See the most-read stories this hour >>

Zeron was taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, where he was pronounced dead, according to Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

Shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, about three blocks south of the previous shooting, a 46-year-old man was found dead on a front porch from a shooting.

Samuel Cuevas was walking eastbound on Chase Street near Orion Avenue in North Hills and passed by a group of four men and a woman drinking near an apartment complex.

Cuevas and the group “exchanged words,” then the group ran after him on Chase Street, then north on Langdon Avenue, police said.

NEWSLETTER: Get essential California headlines delivered daily >>

In a driveway, one member of the group opened fire, killing Cuevas. The group fled the shooting scene, heading west on Chase Street in a black Lincoln town car.

Anyone with information about the killings is asked to contact Det. John Doerbecker of the LAPD’s Valley Bureau at (818) 374-1941.

matt.hamilton@latimes.com

For more California news, follow me @MattHjourno

ALSO

Married couple in Oxnard died in murder-suicide, police say

Two L.A. sheriff’s deputies convicted of beating mentally ill inmate

Inmate shot by guard, three other prisoners injured at Northern California prison