LAPD officers responded to a shooting at the 2400 block of Emery Street at 2:43 a.m. Thursday. Officers found a 36-year-old male suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to LAPD Officer J. Chavez. 

The fire department declared the victim dead at the scene.

The shooting suspects were described as two Hispanic males and were reported to have fled in a vehicle after the incident. 

Chavez said that LAPD’s Central Bureau Homicide is handling the investigation and it is unknown if the incident is gang related or if the victim was experiencing homelessness, according to the officer. 

The killing is the fourth in Boyle Heights over the last 30 days, and 22nd of 2023. 

Andrew Lopez is a Los Angeles native with roots across the Eastside. He studied at San Francisco State University and later earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to report for Boyle Heights Beat from 2023 to 2025 through UC Berkeley’s California Local News Fellowship. When he is not reporting, Lopez mentors youth journalists through The LA Local’s youth journalism program. He enjoys practicing photojournalism and covering the intersections of culture, history and local government in Eastside communities.

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