3 die in L.A. shootings

Three people were killed, including a 15- and a 17-year-old boy, in two unrelated shootings in South Los Angeles, and five others were injured when shots were fired at a party, police said Saturday.

Adiel Quezada, 17, was walking to an Athens neighborhood market about 8:30 p.m. Friday and was later found dead in a nearby parking lot. He had been shot several times outside the store in the 13800 block of Avalon Boulevard, sheriff’s officials said.

Saturday morning, two large votive candles had been placed on the bloodied ground where he had collapsed.

Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (323) 890-5500.

“Hopefully, somebody may have seen something,” said Deputy Aura Sierra, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman.

In a separate incident, a man, 24, and a boy, 15, were fatally shot in the 700 block of Laconia Boulevard shortly before midnight Friday. Los Angeles police said the two men, whose identities were not released, had been arguing. Officers did not know whether others were involved or whether the two had shot each other.

The 24-year-old died at a hospital; the body of the 15-year-old was found more than two miles away near the intersection of Imperial Highway and Vermont Avenue, police said.

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