Woman Found Dead In Car From Apparent Suicide Near Downtown LA
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - After receiving a call for a "shot fired," officers with the Los Angeles Police department on Tuesday discovered a deceased woman in a vehicle just south of downtown LA.
The shooting was reported at about 1 p.m. outside a laundromat in the area of Maple Avenue and East 20th Street, near the Santa Monica (10) Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police said they determined the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, died by suicide. Her name was withheld pending notification of her next of kin, but the LAPD reported that she was in her 50s.
According to authorities, two people who were in the vehicle with the woman when she shot herself fled the scene.
Metro Blue (A) Line services were interrupted between the San Pedro and Grand stations for an unknown duration as authorities investigated the shooting.
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