Man killed in parking lot shooting outside St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower

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Saturday, October 5, 2024 7:50PM
Man killed in shooting outside high school in Bellflower
According to LASD Lt. Hugo Reynaga, the victim, who has not been identified, was found shot inside a white Audi that had been reported stolen in Lynwood.

BELLFLOWER, Calif. (KABC) -- A man was shot and killed in a parking lot Saturday morning outside of St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, triggering an investigation and a search for a suspect.

The incident happened around 8:20 a.m. in the 13600 block of Bellflower Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

According to LASD Lt. Hugo Reynaga, the victim, who has not been identified, was found shot inside a white Audi that had been reported stolen in Lynwood. A woman was found sitting in the passenger seat but she was not injured, Reynaga said.

At the time of the incident, a Pop Warner football game was underway in the high school stadium, adjacent to the parking lot where the shooting occurred, authorities said.

The victim was there to attend his son's game, according to investigators. The child wasn't with his father at the time of the shooting.

"There were people in the parking lot when this occurred, nobody else was injured other than the victim that was seated in the driver's seat of the white sedan," said Reynaga.

Authorities did not provide a suspect description, but witnesses reported seeing the suspect vehicle, a white sedan, fleeing southbound on Bellflower Boulevard from the parking lot.

"We're looking for the driver and the passenger in that suspect vehicle that fled the scene," said Reynaga. "From what was relayed to us was that the driver was not the shooter but was obviously driving the vehicle."

It's unclear if the shooting was a targeted attack. Reynaga said investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the parking lot.

"It's unusual, really, on a Saturday morning at a Pop Warner game," said Reynaga. "We don't know what the motive is and that's what the investigators are working to find out."

No arrests have been made.

Anyone with information is urged to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.