Three injured in mall parking lot shooting in Torrance

TORRANCE, Calif. - Three people are expected to survive after they were injured in a shooting Tuesday evening in a parking lot of the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance.

The shooting was reported around 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the mall near BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. Torrance Police Department officers who were dispatched to the scene didn't locate any victims, but found several shell casings in the area, according to a department spokesperson.

Soon after officers were in the area of the shooting, they received a report about a carjacking/robbery near the Dave & Busters, which is at the south end of the mall. Officers discovered that three to four suspects approached the three victims, opened fire and fled southbound across Carson Street to the mall's Dave & Buster's where they carjacked a Chevrolet SUV and fled.

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The victim of the carjacking was not injured.

Detectives are looking into this shooting as possibly being gang-related and not a random attack on a group of teenagers.

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CNS contributed to this report.