A car-to-car shooting in the Jefferson Park area near the University of Southern California killed a passenger in one of the vehicles, authorities said Monday.
The shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrews Place and Jefferson Boulevard, according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations Center.
The victim was a 30-year-old man, he said.
The mortally wounded man was driven to the Exposition Park area, according to ABC7.
From there, paramedics took him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the desk officer said.
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The USC Department of Public Safety tweeted at 8:43 p.m. that there was police activity on the south side of Exposition Boulevard at Vermont Avenue, that people should stay away from the area, but that no immediate threat existed.
A t 2:09 a.m. Monday, the department tweeted that the police activity had concluded and it was safe to resume normal activities.
