AT least three people have been killed and four others injured in a Los Angeles shooting after a weekend of horrific gun violence across several US cities.
Police raced to a home in Los Angeles at around 2.30am on Saturday, where they found multiple shooting victims.
Officers found five people that had been shot, at the home just outside of Beverly Hills, California in the Beverly Crest community.
A total of seven people were discovered with gunshot wounds by authorities.
Three of those victims, who were in a vehicle parked in front of the home, died at the scene, police say.
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According to cops, four others were taken to the hospital.
Two of the injured victims are in critical condition and the other two are stable.
Police said the home is a short-term rental property and that they are interviewing additional occupants of the house.
The U.S. Sun reached out to LAPD for a comment, but they said there is no additional information available at this time.
This has been the third mass shooting in the Golden State this week, since gunman Huu Can Tran, 72, shot and killed 11 people celebrating the Lunar New Year at a dance studio in Monterey Park on January 21, before fatally shooting himself.
On Monday, seven people were killed in a shooting on farms in Half Moon Bay in northern California, before suspect Chunli Zhao, 67, was taken into custody.
Later that night, another eight people were shot in a separate incident at a Valero gas station in Oakland.
One of the victims, an 18-year-old, died and the other seven were injured but in stable condition.
GOLDEN STATE BLOODSHED
On Friday night, four more people were shot in San Diego.
At around 8.20pm, two victims were struck by gunfire near a trolley stop in Encanto, police say.
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Bloody T-shirts were seen on the ground, KNSD-TV reports.
The conditions of the victims are unknown at this time.
Only about an hour later, two more people were shot in Bay Terraces.
One victim was shot in the head and the other in the shoulder, the outlet reports.
The victim with a gunshot wound to the head died while being taken to the hospital, police say.
Police said they are trying to figure out if the two shootings, as well as an incident in Spring Valley, are connected.
At around 8pm on Friday, cops found at least one bullet casing in an area of Spring Valley, but they don't believe anyone was wounded in the incident.
ACROSS STATE LINES
The gun violence continued this weekend in two other US states.
In Metairie, Lousiana, one man was killed and another was injured in a shooting on Friday.
At around 2.45pm, police found two men inside a vehicle with at least one gunshot wound each.
One man died at the scene and the other was taken to the hospital.
Police have no suspect in custody at this time.
Two more men were shot in Richmond, Virginia on Friday afternoon.
Police heard gunfire shortly after 3pm before finding a man who had been shot.
He was taken to the hospital, where another man arrived with a gunshot wound.
Both men died from their injuries, WWBT reports.
Police are not pursuing any suspects, at this time.
