Rams followers ordered to ‘clear the streets’ after Tremendous Bowl win; at the least 1 gunshot sufferer reported

The celebration in downtown Los Angeles acquired out of hand Sunday evening after the hometown Rams received Tremendous Bowl LVI – with police ordering a crowd of partiers to disperse round 9 p.m. native time, based on a report.

A number of off-ramps of Interstate 110 have been closed within the downtown space, inflicting some site visitors congestion, the Los Angeles Police Division wrote on Twitter, citing data from the California Freeway Patrol. LAPD additionally declared an illegal meeting after the crowds turned violent and resisted the orders to disperse.

“We’re seeing violent and damaging habits by massive crowds within the coronary heart of the Downtown LA space. Now we have issued a number of dispersal orders and have a big police presence,” the LAPD stated in a press release.

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“Everybody that’s a part of these crowds, obey all dispersal orders and clear the streets instantly,” the LAPD added.

In the meantime, at the least one particular person was shot in East Los Angeles on Sunday in an space the place extra followers had gathered, officers stated.

The wounded particular person, who was not recognized, approached legislation enforcement officers close to an intersection round 8:50 p.m. requesting support, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Deputy Tracy Koerner stated, based on the Los Angeles Each day Information.

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The taking pictures happened close to Atlantic and Whittier boulevards, when a suspect presumably fired from one car into one other car, Koerner stated, based on the report.

The sufferer was transported to a hospital with accidents that weren’t believed to be life-threatening, officers stated.

Video posted on-line by FOX 11 LA reporter Marla Tellez seems to point out an enormous crowd of individuals strolling down the road, with some folks shaking and climbing on vehicles.

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Images and movies posted by Los Angeles Instances reporter Kevin Rector appeared to point out folks — many carrying Rams jerseys — climbing onto automobiles, together with a metropolis bus that was graffitied, throughout the chaotic celebrations.

Images and movies posted by Los Angeles Instances reporter Jeong Park additionally appeared to point out violent habits, together with the identical graffitied Silver Line Metro bus.

Violent weekend

Sunday’s taking pictures happened sooner or later after 4 folks have been injured in a taking pictures incident exterior The Good Man, an Italian restaurant in West Los Angeles, the place Justin Bieber was internet hosting a celebration with movie star visitors following his live performance.

A 19-year-old male and a 60-year-old male have been shot and hospitalized in steady situation, whereas one other sufferer was shot and drove to the hospital, officers stated. A 24-year-old male, later recognized as rapper Kodak Black, whose actual identify is Invoice Kapri, was additionally shot and was posing with followers exterior the restaurant when the taking pictures erupted. 

Celebrities together with Jeff Bezos and NFL Corridor-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez, Drake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey McGuire, Kendall Jenner, and Khloe Kardashian, attended Bieber’s occasion.

 

“Preliminary investigation revealed there was a bodily altercation between a number of people on the location,” the Los Angeles Police Division stated in a press release. “Gunshots have been fired by an unknown suspect, who then fled south from the placement.”

Police have been nonetheless looking for the suspect.

The Related Press contributed to this report.