Fans and relatives of a rising talent in the Latin music scene were mourning her death this week after she was shot in a parked vehicle in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Maria de la Rosa, 22, who performed as DELAROSA, was one of three people in the vehicle in Northridge when two males walked up and opened fire early Saturday, police said.

De la Rosa later died at a hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement Monday. The other two people appeared to have been injured, but their conditions were unavailable, Officer K. Terzes said Tuesday.

Officers responded to the incident at 1:40 a.m., Terzes said.

"The incident is believed to be gang-related," he said, reading from the department's initial media log for the crime.

Motive, however, remained a mystery, and no suspect

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