Three women with ties to the Chicago area were killed in a mass shooting Saturday morning near Beverly Hills, California, according to authorities.
At around 2 a.m., officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a residence in the city's Beverly Crest neighborhood where they found a total of seven people who had been shot. Three women died in the shooting, and four other individuals were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner identified two of the victims as Iyana Hutton, 33, of Chicago, and Nenah Davis, 29, from Bolingbrook. The third victim was identified as Destiny Sims, 26, of Arizona.
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Sims, a mother of three, recently lived in Arizona, but was born and raised in Chicago, her mother Donna Howard told NBC 5. Howard said she has no idea what led to the shooting, but is shattered beyond words.
Police said a gathering took place at the home, which was said to be a "short-term rental," but haven't released additional details on what occurred prior to the shooting. In the hours following, detectives were in the process of interviewing witnesses to obtain information about possible suspects.
As of late Sunday, police were looking into the possibility that shooting was targeted.
