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12-year-old girl shot and wounded in South L.A., police say

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A 12-year-old girl was likely the unintended target of a drive-by shooting when she was struck by bullets Saturday night in South L.A., according to police.

The girl was standing with a group of people either in a driveway or on the street in the 1500 block of East 92nd Street about 10 p.m. when she was shot multiple times. She was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said Lt. Ben Fernandes, watch commander with the LAPD’s Southeast Division.

The victim, whose name was not released, “might have been the unintended target,” Fernandes said.

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Police are looking for a burgundy four-door Dodge Charger that officers believe the gunfire came from.

alice.walton@latimes.com

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