Mother, son shot while sleeping in South LA home

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Mother, son shot in South LA

Police say this is a random shooting.

An investigation is underway after a mother and son were shot while sleeping inside their South Los Angeles home Monday night, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. 

It happened around 11 p.m. Monday at a home in the 1500 block of W. 46th Street. 

Authorities told FOX 11 the mother and teenage son were sleeping in a front room of the home when someone fired shots from outside. Both mother and son were shot and taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said. 

No suspect information was immediately available. 

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The investigation is ongoing. 

Anyone with information is asked to call police.