{"id":405629,"date":"2026-07-20T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405629\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:14:10","slug":"woman-killed-in-south-los-angeles-after-bullet-goes-through-bedroom-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405629\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in South Los Angeles after bullet goes through bedroom window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old woman died Sunday morning after a person fired a gun through her bedroom window, striking her, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department said the woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/me.lacounty.gov\/case-detail\/?caseNumber=2026-11426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">identified by medical examiners<\/a> as Maria Barrios Ventura, was in her bedroom on the 400 block of West 103rd Street when a bullet entered through the window sometime around 3:35 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>She was struck and later pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said a suspect fired the shot through the window, but it&#8217;s not yet clear if it was a stray bullet or a targeted incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Information regarding a potential suspect was not released.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old woman died Sunday morning after a person fired a gun through her bedroom window, striking her,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-405629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}