Driver taken into custody on 5 Fwy in Boyle Heights after fatal shooting in South LA

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Police took a driver into custody on the 5 Freeway in Boyle Heights on Thursday afternoon after a man was shot and killed at a strip mall in South Los Angeles, authorities said.

The shooting happened shortly after 2:30 p.m. near the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Witnesses said they heard two gunshots in the parking lot of the strip mall.
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The identity of the victim, whose body was covered with a sheet at the scene, was not immediately released.

Shortly after officers and paramedics responded to the location, other LAPD officers pulled over a Mercedes-Benz sedan on the 5 Freeway, near Cesar Chavez Avenue, and took a man into custody without incident. He was being questioned in connection with the shooting, investigators said.
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