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By Iris Salem, Dean Fioresi
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A man has died after being shot in the parking lot of St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, where a youth football game was being held.
The shooting happened at around 8:20 a.m. in the parking lot of the all-boys college preparatory school, located in the 13600 block of Bellflower Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies say that the victim was sitting inside of a white sedan when he was shot by an unknown gunman. He was transported to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
He has not yet been identified.
“Game started at 8:15 and then about five minutes later you heard, I heard three gunshots,” said Juan Mares, a Bellflower resident who was at the school for a youth soccer game. He says that the referee temporarily stopped the game to have the players sit behind the bench in the moments after the crowd learned of the shooting.
A second passenger of the car, only identified as a woman, was uninjured in the shooting.
“At the time of the incident, a youth football game was in progress in the high school stadium, adjacent to the parking lot where the shooting occurred,” LASD’s statement said. “The victim had arrived there to attend his son’s game.”
Despite the incident, and the fact that all of the soccer games were canceled, Mares said that neither of the scheduled football games were called off.
Deputies noted that the car the victim was driving, a white Audi, had been reported stolen at some point prior to Saturday.
The LASD says there were possibly two suspects wearing black hoodies. The suspect vehicle was described as a possible Dodge Charger, according to deputies.
Anyone with information was asked to contact the LASD’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.
Iris Salem is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. With tenure spanning more than 17 years at CBS News and Stations, Ms. Salem has been a devoted contributor, defining digital news and delivering impactful stories.
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