LOS ANGELES -- Police say a suspect in shootings that left three people dead and four others injured in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles has been taken into custody.
Sgt. Frank Preciado says the suspect was detained following a Sunday night standoff at a house in Sylmar.
No further details were released, pending a police news conference scheduled later Sunday.
Police said the shootings happened within the span of an hour in the San Fernando Valley area about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, and that the random attacks may have been carried out by the same gunmen.
Witnesses spotted two men in a tan- or gold-colored SUV with tinted windows at two of the three crime scenes Sunday morning, said Sgt. Frank Preciado, a police spokesman.
While the victims appeared to be randomly targeted, investigators determined that the same type of weapon was used in the attacks and the suspect shot at victims from inside a car, he said.
The shootings triggered an intense investigation and prompted the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to step up patrols on the street.
In the first attack, a family of five riding in a car to attend church was struck by gunfire at 5:50 a.m. in San Fernando. The family had pulled over after noticing the suspect driving erratically when they were shot, Preciado said.
A woman in her 20s was killed, her mother and father were critically wounded and two children sustained minor injuries from either bullet fragments or broken glass, Preciado said.
About 40 minutes later, a man was fatally shot at a Sylmar park.
Then 15 minutes later and less than 5 miles away, a woman in her late 50s who was sitting in a parked car by a church was shot in the head. Preciado said she may have been waiting for someone, but he didn't have more details.
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