China News Service, San Francisco, April 27. A shooting occurred on the 27th local time in Los Angeles, California. The suspect drove and opened fire on the street, causing 2 deaths and 1 injury.

After the chase and confrontation, the police shot the suspect to death.

　　Los Angeles police said the suspect drove a white jeep and opened fire at various locations on the streets of Los Angeles in the early hours of the 27th.

The first shooting occurred at about 1 am. The suspect shot into the car while driving by a car near the University of Southern California, injuring a man who could speak Korean.

The police said that the dash cam on the victim's car captured the suspect's license plate number.

　　About 10 minutes later, the suspect arrived at a Starbucks coffee shop and shot a young couple. The 24-year-old Latino man Alexis Kalbahar was shot and killed.

　　About 15 minutes later, the suspect opened fire on the second Asian driver, and 42-year-old Mingzhi Zhu was shot and killed.

Uber said in a statement that the victim was an Uber driver and was on the way to pick up passengers at the time of the incident.

　　ABC reported that after the police found the suspect’s vehicle, they began chasing after the suspect’s vehicle at about 1:45 in the morning.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said that California Highway Patrol pierced the suspect’s tire with a spike strip. The police were on an overpass in Orange County about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles at about 3:20 in the morning. Stop it.

Moore said the police used a megaphone to urge the suspect to surrender, but was refused.

The suspect then opened fire at the police through the car window, and a SWAT member fired back.

When the suspect opened fire again, the same SWAT team killed him at about 5.30 in the morning.

　　The Associated Press quoted the Los Angeles Police Department as saying that the suspect was about 50 years old.

The police found a pistol at the scene. The police believe that the suspects used this pistol in the shooting incidents at different locations that day.

　　National Broadcasting Corporation quoted the police as saying that the series of shootings "seems to be random acts of violence."

At present, the police do not know the motive of the gunman.

The police said they would communicate with the gunmen’s family to confirm the cause of the violence.

　　Moore said that two of the victims in the shooting were of Asian descent, and the police are also investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime against Asians.

　　After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the United States, violence against Asians across the United States has increased significantly. The Los Angeles police said that the city reported 15 hate crimes against Asians in 2020, compared with 7 in 2019. In addition, in 2021, the number of homicides and shootings in Los Angeles has increased significantly. Before the 27th, the city had recorded 108 homicides this year, compared with 83 in the same period last year. In 2021, there were 445 shooting incidents in Los Angeles, compared with 257 in the same period last year. (Finish)