{"id":493179,"date":"2026-10-12T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493179\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:04:27","slug":"2-boys-shot-and-killed-in-pico-union-police-say-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493179\/","title":{"rendered":"2 boys shot and killed in Pico-Union, police say \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man shot and killed two children before shooting himself in Los Angeles&#8217; Pico-Union neighborhood on Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported near Venice Boulevard and Catalina Street just before 1 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the man, who is believed to be the children&#8217;s father, and the two boys, ages 4 and 10, were taken to the hospital, where both children died. The man is being treated for self-inflicted gunshot wounds and remains in custody, the LAPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said there&#8217;s no threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man shot and killed two children before shooting himself in Los Angeles&#8217; Pico-Union neighborhood on Sunday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,5120],"class_list":["post-493179","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","tag-pico-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493179","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=493179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}