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Drive-by shooting at Palmdale park leaves man dead, 2 women wounded

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PALMDALE – A drive-by shooting in a park in Palmdale early Tuesday left a man dead and two women wounded, authorities said.

Deputies went to Marie Kerr Park, in the 39700 block 30th Street West, around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, on a shots fired call, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

“Investigators learned a group of people were in the west parking lot after hours when a fight broke out but was quickly broken up. Approximately 10 minutes later, a pickup truck was driven into the parking lot by unknown assailants who opened fire on the crowd striking the three victims before speeding away northbound on 30th Street West,” the sheriff’s news release states.

Deputies discovered a 19-year-old male victim unresponsive in the parking lot suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, according to the sheriff’s department. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name has not yet been released pending next of kin notification.

“Two adult Hispanic women in their late teens were also struck by gunfire. They were transported to a nearby hospital where they were treated for non life threatening injuries,” the sheriff’s news release states.

No arrests were reported, and no suspect description was released. The shooting did not appear to be gang-related, authorities said.

Anyone with information about this shooting is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org.

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17 comments for "Drive-by shooting at Palmdale park leaves man dead, 2 women wounded"

  1. It seriously is getting bad out here for these kids. Every time my 19 year old son goes to a party , or hears of a party’s incidents a day later, there’s always something bad going on. Either someone was stabbed , shot, or someone just shoots up in the air for no reason. These young kids are going around carrying guns like it’s no big deal. My condolences to the family going through this terrible loss.

      • Hmmm…I own guns LEGALLY. And I have never committed a crime with any of my weapons. Perhaps you should say…”It’s simple math…more illegally carried guns…more crime. Now that is pretty simple.

        • More legal guns directly makes more illegal guns available. You may very well have not only never turned to crime, and also maintained a perfect record in regards to keeping control of your weapons, but the fact is that very close to EVERY illegal gun was at one point legally purchased by someone more or less like you.

        • LOL…while Dave may have oversimplified a bit, your response really shows how deep and nuanced your knowledge of the issue isn’t.

    • “Getting bad”? When I was a kid here there was absolutely nothing to do BUT get in trouble. Street racing, fights, drugs, boosting cars…they were all common, and even though guns were harder to get everyone had a knife or something they could use to bat someone’s brains out. The only thing that has made it appear to get worse is numbers. Three times as many high schools in the valley, and every one of them with more kids in it than any of them had back then.

      At least now there seems to be stuff kids can be doing OTHER than looking for trouble.

      • I was born and raised out here in Lancaster. Born in 77 taken an argument away about being young. I’ve seen this place go to hell. Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s out here was awesome I remember riding my bike around quartz hill and never had to worry about much of anything most parents around my neighborhood knew me and mine knew them so if we did something wrong I usually got 2 or 3ass whooping before I even got home. The problem is not legally owned guns the problem is ghost guns there is a difference. I saw an article where three D printers can make every part of a gun except 2 or 3 metal parts. 2nd thing to this problem is lack of supervision by parents over the children. We can keep pointing figures at everything as being the problem and we can keep acting like we as parents are not. Fact is we are how many of us really know what are children are doing, thinking, who their friends are.? Not many of us I remember mom integrating every friend I had as did their parents want your kids to stop this shit get involved in their life teach them right from wrong, be an example ghost guns are real let’s figure out a way to slow or stop the continue manufacturing of the ghost gun and will slow the process of so many killings in our valley

        • You were born about the time I was escaping from the most tedious place on earth. Glad it was better for you, although “gosh I could ride around on a bike” sounds a lot better when you are talking about elementary school age than high school age.

          As to ghost guns, they are becoming a problem in some ways, but from a practical view it is a whole lot cheaper and easier to just get a formerly legal gun that has been stolen or improperly sold than it is to get a 3D printer up and running. Stolen guns and straw buyers willing to ‘help’ are literally everywhere.

  2. A NICE MIDNIGHT PICNIC AT THE PARK RUINED…

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    THE PARKS, SCHOOLS AND STREETS ARE NOT SAFE IN PALMDALE…

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    STAY AWAY…

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    HAVE EVERYTHING DELIVERED…

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  3. wth…Sold mom’s house in L.A. to get her away from all that moved her into Montera Estates…. incident at Kohls now this.

  4. I wasn’t there, but since the cowardly MAGAts have no way of knowing that I wasn’t the shooters could have been them making yet another mistake. Keep your eyes open out there folks.

      • My support is moderate, because I think they should focus more on some things and less on others, but in general yeah I support them. In a practical sense it is either them or the GOP alternative, and the GOP is so far out in the extremist weeds that currently I wouldn’t even consider any candidate running under that banner.