Month: August 2025

Two people were killed and six others injured in a mass shooting in an area of downtown Los Angeles early Monday.

Authorities said that the shooting took place during a music festival after-party around 1 a.m. Monday in the area of 14th Place and Griffith Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. There were reportedly multiple parties taking place in the area at that time.

According to the Associated Press, police arrived at an event promoted on social media as an ‘unofficial after-party’ for Hard Summer, a weekend techno-music festival held at Hollywood Park, about 9 miles (14 km) away in Inglewood. More than 50 people were said to be at that afterparty when police arrived at 11 p.m. on Sunday to shut it down, at which time officers spotted a person possibly armed with a gun enter a building in the area’s warehouse district, located in the 1100 block of the 14th Place. Following that person’s arrest at the scene, officers cleared the area but were called back to the same area after reports of shots fired around 1 a.m.

One male victim was pronounced dead on the scene, with a number of people shot. Seven people were brought to the hospital, where a 52-year-old female victim later died; two others were listed in critical condition, with the victims ages ranging from 26-62 years old. Local ABC affiliate KABC-TV reported that a 29-year-old man was one of the two people killed. Judner Derisso, the father of the man who was killed, identified his son as 29-year-old Gregory Derisso.

The 2025 edition of the three-day HARD Summer festival took place at Hollywood Park at SoFi Stadium on Aug. 2-3 with headliners Feid, Dom Dolla, Kaytranada, hard-driving Gesaffelstein and Sara Landry.

The Los Angeles Times reported that there was no information about a suspect or a motive, and no arrests have been made as of press time. Sn investigation is still ongoing.

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United States Representative Nancy Mace, R-S.C., announced her run for South Carolina governor Monday morning in a bid to succeed Republican Gov. Henry McMaster.

Mace, 47, said in an announcement Monday morning at The Citadel, where she became the first woman to graduate from the Corps of Cadets program in 1999: “This morning, I’m making it official. I am running to be your governor of the great state of South Carolina. I didn’t come to join the club. They don’t want me, and I don’t want them. I came to hold the line. They said stay quiet; I spoke up. They said sit down; I stood up. They said play nice, and I fought back. This isn’t about playing defense. This is about going on offense for you — for your family, for your freedom and for your future … I wasn’t built to kiss the ring. I just wear one. I don’t answer to the establishment. I don’t owe those in the back room a single thing. I answer to the people. And the people, let me tell you, are fed up.”

Mac first came to Congress in 2021. and has since developed a reputation as a GOP firebrand in recent months.  She will run against fellow Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., state Attorney General Alan Wilson, R, state Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, R, in the primary. A poll released by the South Carolina Policy Council showed Mace narrowly leading Wilson in the primary among Republican voters.

Mace told Fox News last week that she was leaning toward running for state-wide office, citing economic issues, crime and “gender-bending ideology” at colleges in the state. She also said if she launched a gubernatorial bid, she and Wilson would run a “two-man race… If I get in, I will fight to the finish, and I will take out South Carolina’s attorney general, because he’s turned a blind eye on women and on children and on the state for a lot of reasons. He might force me to do this. South Carolina is tired of the politicians who smile for the cameras, lie to your face, and then vanish when it’s time to lead.”

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