Three killed, four wounded in Beverly Crest shooting; sixth mass shooting in California this month

In the early hours of a January Saturday, seven people were shot in Beverly Crest, a quiet and affluent corner of Los Angeles — three of them killed inside a vehicle, four others wounded where they stood. The shooting was the sixth of its kind in California within a single month, arriving on the heels of a dance hall massacre and farmland killings that had already shaken the state. For a place that has staked its identity on the strictest gun laws in the nation, the accumulating dead pose a question that legislation alone has not yet answered.