man was slain Wednesday afternoon in a drive-by shooting in East Hollywood, police said.

Police said the victim was walking to his vehicle in the 900 block on North Oxford Avenue about 4:20 p.m. when a black sport utility vehicle pulled up.At least one attacker fired multiple shots, the Los Angeles Police Department said.The victim was pronounced dead at a local hospital. His name was not released.Homicide investigators were at the scene. No additional details were immediately available.At least 74 homicides have been reported within two miles of Wednesday's slaying since January 2007, according to a Times Homicide Report databa...

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The organized crime unit of the Winnipeg Police Service is investigating a Thursday morning shooting incident at a four-plex in the city's West End.

Several shots were fired just before 5 a.m. at the building in the area of Notre Dame and Ingersoll Street, a restaurant worker in the area told CBC News.There have been no reports of any injuries, and no arrests have been made.Police have not made a connection between the incident and the current turf war between the Hells Angels and Rock Machine motorcycle gangs.However, a police spokeswoman said there have been several fights over the drug trade this summer fall that didn't involve those gangs."There's been a number of feuds or disputes," Const. Natalie Aitken said, "so that's not something … we've been able to confirm in terms of associations yet."It's not something we can confirm but as these investigations go on with the organized crime unit there is a likelihood that it is going to...

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The fatal shooting of Abbotsford Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon in Kelowna on Sunday will likely result in a retaliatory attack,

The fatal shooting of Abbotsford Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon in Kelowna on Sunday will likely result in a retaliatory attack, but not an all out return to the spiral of gang violence that plagued Abbotsford and the Lower Mainland in recent years, says a UFV criminologist.Jonathan, the eldest of the three notorious Abbotsford Bacon brothers, was killed in a brazen, public shooting outside the DeltaGrand Okanagan Resort that also injured Larry Amero, a full-patch Hells Angels member from the White Rock chapter.Also in the car was Independent Soldiers gang associate James Riach, 29, and two women, both of whom were wounded, according to The Vancouver Sun.Riach fled the scene on foot and has not been located.The RCMP has made clear it is determined to hunt down those responsible for the shooting,...

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