24-Year-Old Newlywed Killed at LA Starbucks Drive-Thru in Drive-By Shooting Rampage

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24-Year-Old Newlywed Killed at LA Starbucks Drive-Thru in Drive-By Shooting Rampage

The shooting was part of a rampage overnight that led to the in separate incidents from LA to Fullerton.

By Kim Tobin • Published April 27, 2021 • Updated 1 hour ago

Flowers and other items were left at a Starbucks drive-thru in memory of a 24-year-old man who was shot and killed Tuesday morning in one of five drive-by shootings that ended with a deadly freeway standoff.

Alexis Carbajal, 24, was waiting in line in his Ford Mustang when he crossed paths with the gunman, who opened fire at five locations around Los Angeles. Security camera video shows the shooter in a white Jeep SUV rear-end the blue Mustang in the drive-thru.

The gunman fired into Carbajal's car. Family members told NBCLA he was recently married and was with his wife and a friend when they were attacked. ... The driver of the Jeep takes off as police are rounding the corner with lights flashing.

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The shooter was later killed in an hours-long standoff on the 91 Freeway. Police said one of the five shootings left an Uber driver dead in downtown Los Angeles. ... Police have not identified a motive in the shootings.

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Uber Driver, a Kind and Loving Father of Two, Killed in LA Drive-By Shootings

Mingzhi Zhu was shot and killed when a gunman, who had already attacked a man waiting in line at a Starbucks drive-thru, opened fire through an SUV window in downtown Los Angeles.

By Jonathan Lloyd • Published 15 mins ago • Updated 14 mins ago

A 42-year-old father of two young children was one of two people killed Tuesday in a series of shootings carried out by a man in Jeep SUV at several locations in and around downtown Los Angeles.

Mingzhi Zhu of South Pasadena, was working as an Uber driver early Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles when the SUV pulled alongside his Cadillac Escalade. Its driver opened fire through the SUV's window.

Zhu was on his way to pick up a rider, Uber said in a statement that called the early morning shootings senseless and heartbreaking.

“He was a hard-working, gentle, kind, deeply loving father and very dedicated husband,” a family spokeswoman said. “The family is really at a total loss.” ... Zhu is survived by his wife and two children, ages 2 and 8.

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1. OMG

Speechless.

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2. I'm sick of this

This 💩 that guns don’t kill people..people kill people. No! People with guns kill people. I’m afraid we will never get over the guns issues. It’s maddening. Heartbreaking for so many families.