Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators are trying to determine if there is a connection between two fatal shootings that occurred around the same time Saturday night in adjacent blocks in Carson.
The Sheriff's Department issued a statement Sunday morning saying homicide detectives responded to two separate locations shortly before midnight Saturday. One man was found shot to death at each location in the 100 blocks of East and West 234th Street.
Initial reports said it was unknown whether the killings were related.
In an update released Sunday, the Sheriff's Department said deputies initially found one victim in the street and then located a second victim in a vehicle. Firefighters pronounced both men dead.
The Sheriff's Department did not release information on the identities of the victims or suspects.
But KTLA5 reported that relatives who gathered at the scene identified the men as Richard Mata, 45, and Vaa Fatu, 18.
Mata's sister told KTLA that he was a Carson native and father of three who had recently moved from Arizona.
Fatu's father told the station that he was a good and loving boy who was on dialysis and recently received a new kidney.
