Innocent bystander shot, killed in Hawthorne strip mall parking lot

Innocent bystander shot, killed in Hawthorne strip mall parking lot

A man in his late 40s was gunned down in a Hawthorne strip mall parking lot on Monday night, Aug. 12, but investigators do not believe he was an intended target, authorities said. The shooting occurred just before 9:30 p.m. in the 12700 block of Crenshaw Boulevard, near El Segundo Boulevard, as the victim was walking out of a liquor store, said Lt. Steve De Jong of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is leading the investigation. …