Man targets estranged wife’s family in Baldwin Park, killing 2 adults and injuring a child, authorities say

A man targeted his estranged wife’s family, fatally shooting a couple and injuring a 10-year-old girl inside a Baldwin Park home in the early hours of Monday, Nov. 17, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Three victims talked to Baldwin Park police outside the home, telling them that there had been an assault in the home on the 12700 block of Royston Street. Just before 5 a.m., three people with gunshot wounds were inside the home – two people who were declared dead at the scene and a 10-year-old girl, who is in a hospital in critical condition, the sheriff’s department said in a Tuesday statement.

LASD is assisting Baldwin Park police with the investigation of the attack, which happened in a neighborhood east of the 605 Freeway and south of Ramona Boulevard.

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