A family is in mourning and a gunman on the loose after a mother of 3 was shot and killed while she rode in the backseat of a car in South LA. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC 4 News at 5
A 30-year-old mother of three children was shot and killed in the backseat of a SUV Monday night in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.
Bre'yanna Bailey was in the backseat of the vehicle when someone in another vehicle opened fire in the Chesterfield
Square neighborhood. The car-to-car shooting was reported just before midnight near Slauson and Western avenues.
The driver of the SUV then drove to a fire station at St. Andrews Place and Slauson Avenue, and crashed into a fire hydrant. The crash sheared off the hydrant, unleashing a tower of water that flooded the intersection.
Bailey died at the scene.
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"I don't understand," said Katrina Taylor, the victim's godmother. "How could a person just shoot into a vehicle. You don't even know who you're shooting. This is like a nightmare."
No arrests were reported. Authorities did not have a detailed description of the shooter.
Two other women in the SUV were not injured.
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Details about a motive were not immediately available.
