Woman shot and killed while sitting inside boyfriend's car in Compton

Authorities are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a 59-year-old woman while she was sitting inside her boyfriend's car in Compton.

The shooting happened around 10:57 p.m. on Monday in the 700 block of South Holly Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Police said the victim, Beverly Wilkins, was sitting inside of the parked Hyundai SUV outside her mother's home when someone pulled up and fired multiple shots into the car.

Wilkins was shot hit three times and was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

"I got up and I went to the car where she was and I tried to wake her up and she was already gone," said Beverly's mother, Rosie. "I couldn't believe it."

She says that the windows of the car weren't shot out, but there were at least three bullet holes in the trunk of the car. 

"She was always willing to help people. She had her mischievous ways, but she still was a good girl," Rosie Wilkins said. "You be around somebody all your life, you know, and then all of a sudden they gone — not with sickness but carelessness."

Authorities are still searching for the suspect who drove off after the shooting.

"Please turn yourself in, whoever you is, turn yourself in ... because is nothing good gonna happen to you," Wilkins' mother said. "You take a life and somebody gonna take yours, that's the way I feel."

Wilkins leaves behind her mother, sister and 40-year-old son. 

Anyone with information was asked to call homicide detectives at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.