A 59-year-old woman sitting in an SUV was shot and killed Monday night outside her mother's home in Compton.
The shooting was reported just before 11 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of South Holly Avenue. The woman died at the scene.
She was identified by her mother as 59-year-old Beverly Wilkins, who also lived at the home. Rosie Wilkins said her daughter was sitting inside her boyfriend's SUV when shots were fired from a passing car.
The Hyundai SUV had bullet holes in the rear driver's side.
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The victim's boyfriend was inside the SUV at the time of the shooting, investigators said.
Wilkins said she was asleep inside the home when she heard someone pounding on her door.
"They've been shooting fireworks around here a lot, so everybody in the neighborhood was thinking it was fireworks," Wilkins said. "Somebody was bamming on the door, 'Mama, mama, Beverly got shot.'"
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Beverly Wilkins is survived by an adult son, family members said.
NBCLA has reached out to the sheriff's department for more information. No arrests were reported early Tuesday.
Anyone with information was asked to call homicide detectives at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
