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2 Shot Dead at North Hollywood Party

The alleged gunmen are still at large in what police describe as a gang-related attack.

Two men were shot and killed at a party on the 8100 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue early this morning and a third was wounded in what police described as a gang-related attack.

At approximately 1:40 a.m., the LAPD North Hollywood Division received several calls reporting that a shooting occurred at a home about two blocks south of Roscoe Boulevard. Residents in the North Hollywood neighborhood reported hearing several gunshots, and some witnesses recalled seeing two black males in a "white, unknown make and unknown model 4-door vehicle, with black rims" speed away from the crime scene.

About ten patrol cars arrived at the residence, where a party had been going on until the gunfire disrupted it. Rival gang members tried to get into the party, and shooting broke out, an officer said.

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Several other calls to 911 reported another possible gunshot victim at a gas station at the corner of Roscoe Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue, which is just a block away from the scene of the shooting and across the street from the Wat Thai Buddhist Temple. When Patch arrived at the location, it appeared that the police did not find a victim there, nor did they find any witnesses or people who knew anything about that possible incident.

At the single-family dwelling where the shooting occurred, several witnesses at the scene were being questioned by the police officers outside the property, then later brought inside the house and questioned further. From the transmissions on the police scanner, it sounded like the residents of that house did not allow the police to enter or search the property for a good amount of time after the patrol cars arrived on the scene. Also observed were many of these possible witnesses not cooperating with the police in bringing forth helpful information.

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After some negotiation with the people responsible for the property, and maybe 10 or 15 minutes after the police arrived at the scene, the officers were allowed to search the property and found the shooting victim in the backyard area, close to the rear alleyway. 

When the North Hollywood officers requested an LAFD rescue ambulance to respond to the rear of the property, Patch went to investigate, but learned from an unnamed senior lead officer that there wasn't an injured person at the alley scene. The officer told Patch that "this is now a homicide." The lifeless, contorted body of a young black man was lying on the ground near the open gate to the back alley. LAFD was called to corroborate the death.

Over the police radio, LAPD learned that another possible shooting victim, related to the homicide incident, was taken to Kaiser Hospital in Panorama City.

 

The City News Service contributed partially to this report.

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