The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a man believed to be connected to a shooting that left one man dead in the Exposition Park area Tuesday afternoon.
The LAPD is asking for the public's help to find 26-year-old Jonathan Orellana-Lozada, an LA resident, according to a press release.
The shooting occurred at around 5 p.m. off of Vermont Avenue and W. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Shots rang out in the area just south of USC and the LA Coliseum, leaving one person dead. Officers were on patrol in the area and responded to the scene.
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Officers detained three people nearby, the release said.
Vermont Avenue was shut down between W. Martin Luther King Boulevard and Exposition Boulevard as authorities investigated the motive for the shooting.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the location a short time later and pronounced the victim dead at the scene, LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange reported.
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"Detectives are investigating the incident as well as the involvement of the three people detained," the release said.
Detectives described the suspect as a man between 18 and 20 wearing a black hat, a white shirt, tan or brown colored pants.
The Los Angeles Police Department established a perimeter to find the suspect, presumed close to the location.
