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Deadly shooting reported just outside Metro's Leimert Park station in South Los Angeles

Man dead after shooting outside Metro station in Leimert Park
Man dead after shooting outside Metro station in Leimert Park 00:31

A man was found shot and killed just outside an LA Metro station in South Los Angeles early Saturday, police said. 

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers received a call at 12:18 a.m. of shots being fired at 4330 Crenshaw Boulevard, which is the address listed for the transit agency's Leimert Park station. Upon arrival, officers found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in a nearby parking lot. 

Paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene, police said. 

LAPD said the shooting is believed to have been gang-related. No information has been released about the shooter, who remains at large.

LA Metro said the shooting occurred in a parking lot and has nothing to do with the transit agency.

Earlier this year, there was a spate of violent crimes aboard Metro buses and trains. Between April through June, three passengers were killed – a woman fatally stabbed in the throat on a train near Studio City in April, a man shot dead on a bus in Commerce in May and another man shot and killed by someone who came up to him as his train was leaving a station in South LA.

No other details have been released by authorities about the deadly shooting reported early Saturday.

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