The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for the shooter who killed three women and injured four others during a gathering in the affluent Beverly Crest neighborhood, north of Beverly Hills and near Benedict Canyon.
Friends and family of those killed in the gunfire over the weekend, two of whom were young mothers, took to social media to grieve their loss, as California sees its fourth mass shooting of the year — three happening within 44 hours of each other.
On Monday, Jan. 30, the Los Angeles County coroner identified the three women who were fatally shot on Saturday, Jan. 28, as Iyana Hutton, 33, of Chicago; Nenah Davis, 29, of Bolingbrook, Illinois, and Destiny Sims, 26, of Buckeye, Arizona, according to the New York Post.
Law enforcement is trying to determine if the victims were at the $3 million home to attend a party.
“It’s sad,” said resident Rachel David. “The girls were my age in that car. I could have been at the party to. It’s so sad and horrible.”
Sgt. Bruce Borihanh from the Los Angeles Police Department said, “We called it a gathering until we can interview some of the people that were here to determine exactly what kind of gathering it was.”
Police Sgt. Frank Preciado said the three were sitting inside a car when the shooter approached and shot at least seven people. Another detective on the case, Meghan Aguilar confirmed a search for the suspects and additional evidence surrounding the shooting is still to be gathered.
Sims, the mother of three, had recently moved to Arizona but was born and raised in Illinois, her mother, Donna Hancock, said in an interview with NBC 5 Chicago. Hancock, like the police, is baffled by her daughter’s connection to the “gathering” or the shooter, but she says she is shattered.
Reports say Davis is the other mother but have not been able to verify how many children she has. According to one of her friends on Facebook, Davis lost her father just three…
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