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Gunman shot dead by cops after 'killing newlywed man and Uber driver in five separate drive-by shootings in LA' in possible anti-Asian hate crime
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - The suspect killed a newly married man and an Uber driver father-of-two during a 'random' shooting spree in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning
- At least one other person was shot but survived, while another was injured during a rampage of five separate drive-by shootings throughout the city
- The two victims have been identified as Mingzhi Zhu, 42, and Alexis Carbajal, 24
- The suspect has only been described so far as a man in his late 40s or early 50s
- He led police on a three-hour car chase that ended in a shootout on a freeway overpass, where the suspect was fatally shot after opening fire on officers
- Police said they are now probing whether the shootings were hate crimes as two of the shooting victims were Asian men, one of whom was killed
- It comes amid a surge in anti-Asian violence as well as mass shootings
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-28 |
