2 Shot After Football Game In South Los Angeles

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Reporting from my neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Officials say two people have been shot and wounded on at George Washinton Prep high school after a football game.

ATHENS, Calif. (KABC) -- Two people were reported shot Friday at George Washington Preparatory High School in the Athens area of south Los Angeles.

Two people were confirmed shot. Two others may also have been shot.

A 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man were shot multiple times, according to L.A. County Fire Dept. Spokesman James Barnes. They were treated in the school's gym and were transported to a hospital.

The shooting occurred at 5:50 p.m.

According to County Fire Department spokesman James Barnes

a 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man were both shot multiple times Friday night at Washington Preparatory High School in the Athens area.

Barnes says the two are hospitalized in critical condition.

Susan Cox, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District, says the shooting occurred in a parking lot outside the gymnasium at the end of a football game. She says the male victim was a student at the school last year.

Cox says one suspect was seen running east from the campus. No arrests have been made.


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