{"id":482382,"date":"2026-10-02T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482382\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:36:09","slug":"bus-driver-fatally-shot-by-passenger-after-dispute-in-mar-vista-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482382\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver fatally shot by passenger after dispute in Mar Vista, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were investigating a shooting in Mar Vista.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790915769_141_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 2, 2026 3:31AM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MAR VISTA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A bus driver was fatally shot by a passenger following a dispute in Mar Vista on Thursday, according to Los Angeles police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting was reported around 5:15 p.m. near Centinela Avenue and Washington Boulevard. Police said a dispute occurred between the passenger and the bus driver before the passenger pulled out a gun and shot the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The passenger fled the scene on a bicycle, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim, a man in his 40s, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The suspect remained outstanding as of Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further details about the shooting were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Footage from AIR7 showed the street blocked off with crime scene tape and a bus nearby. Multiple police officers and patrol vehicles were at the scene as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were investigating a shooting in Mar Vista. Friday, October 2, 2026 3:31AM Follow ABC7 on Google MAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[189019,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-482382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-189019","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\/482382","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=482382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}