What was meant to be a night of dancing and beats turned into a tragedy in downtown Los Angeles.
Around 1 a.m. Monday, gunfire erupted at an unofficial after-party for the Hard Summer music festival, leaving two dead and six others wounded.
The event, hosted in a warehouse district and promoted on social media, had already drawn police attention hours earlier.
“We tried to shut it down when we spotted someone possibly armed,” said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman.
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That person was arrested—but trouble returned after officers left. Just before dawn, another call came in: shots fired.
When police rushed back, they found a male victim dead at the scene and a woman who later died at the hospital.
Six others were hospitalized. No suspects have been identified yet.
Witness Tyrone Laney, who lives nearby, recalled hearing booming music—then a burst of rapid gunfire.
“It was loud, clear… you knew someone wasn’t walking away from that,” he told The LA Times.
Mayor Karen Bass condemned the violence, calling the loss “devastating” and vowing accountability.
A music festival after-party shouldn’t end in mourning. But in LA’s nightlife, sometimes the bass drops—and so do bodies.
