At least three people were killed and four others injured in a shooting near Beverly Hills, California, early Saturday morning, police said. The Los Angeles Police Department said the shooting took place at a short-term rental around 2:30 a.m. in the exclusive Beverly Crest neighborhood, which borders Beverly Hills.
Police responded to multiple calls of “a shootout with people downed,” said Sgt. Bruce Borihanh said at a press conference on Saturday.
He said police were investigating whether there was a party or other gathering at the residence when the shooting occurred.
Sergeant Borihanh said two of the people who were injured were in critical condition and the other two were in stable condition. He said officials were waiting for the coroner to identify those killed. Police did not provide the gender or age of those killed or injured.
The sergeant said there was “no suspicious information” but he did not believe the community was in danger based on witness interviews so far.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the shooting in the 2700 block of Ellison Drive at 2:55 a.m. Rescuers pronounced three people dead at the scene and took two people to the hospital, said Margaret Stewart, a spokeswoman for the department.
She said that about 15 minutes later, authorities received a call from another hospital where two people who were injured in the shooting had been taken. That hospital was not equipped to treat their injuries and the Fire Department transported them to another hospital, Ms Stewart said.
This month in the United States, there have been at least 43 shootings in which four or more people were injured or killed, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks gun violence based on police reports, coverage of news and other public sources.
The deadliest shooting this year took place last week at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, about 20 miles from the Beverly Crest shooting. Six women and five men, many of them older Chinese immigrants, were killed. Less than three days later, seven people were shot to death in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
The White House said this week it would renew a push for stricter gun control measures.
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