Los Angeles Suburb - Two Wounded In Twin Shootings Near Los Angeles Reuters - Three Killed

By Dana Feldman

LOS ANGELES Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:07pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened up criticism for a compact small business plus a regional home owned by means of users of the same friends and family while in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey with Wednesday, killing about three people and wounding two other folks ahead of fleeing within a taken car, authorities said.

It ended up being not yet determined precisely what motivated the gunman to be able to spend the particular back-to-back shootings, which often erupted soon after 11 a.m. regarding not one but two blocks apart within a blue-collar neighborhood, Downey police arrest Lieutenant Dean Milligan said.

But that experts claim almost all personal training subjects have been presumed to become relatives encouraged investigators to suspicious they may have been singled out because of the perpetrator, they said.

"We don't believe it's just a haphazard behave because it's two regions which have been tapped together, but we can't state that at this time," Milligan instructed Reuters.

He stated police never have identified the suspect as well as were being explained to simply by survivors that will they didn't acknowledge their particular assailant, which remained at great in Downey, a smallish metropolis southeast involving Los Angeles.

Details of your blasts remained murky. But in line with authorities' first account, the gunman wandered into a professional fire-protection internet business as well as started shooting, eliminating a guy and also lovely women plus wounding yet another person, identified solely like a female.

Driving apart within a car owned or operated through one of the friends and family members, the imagine then got over them into the home a pair of hindrances away, where this individual wiped out a new womans occupant in addition to wounded a new 13-year-old boy, police arrest said. Ages of the various other victims weren't given.

The a pair of survivors ended up shown throughout critical however steady condition, Milligan said.

There ended up being absolutely no signal with pressured entry with also location, and investigators have however to ascertain regardless of whether anything at all nevertheless the taken vehicle was taken from also the business or even the home, law enforcement said.

The two survivors, each of whom called this 911 catastrophe quantity to help summon police once they had been shot, the two advised authorities there had been your mental swap between the gunman and also his sufferers before he opened up fire at every single location, but police declined to help elaborate.

Milligan stated there seemed to be no immediate purpose to think the fact that shootings had been related to help neighborhood gangs or drugs, and that none belonging to the patients was identified to be involved in a divorce or child custody dispute. He claimed there were very little document with virtually any staff members getting terminated recently.

(Additional confirming by simply Alex Dobuzinskis; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by way of Cynthia Johnston and also Eric Beech)