By Associated Press - Saturday, September 29, 2018

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) - Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives are investigating a shooting that killed a man and a teenage girl and wounded a woman in Compton.

The Sheriff’s Department says a man detained after the Friday afternoon shooting is a person of interest.

Deputies responding to a shooting report shortly before 6 p.m. found the three victims inside a residence. Two were pronounced dead at the scene.

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The wounded woman had been shot in the upper torso and was hospitalized in unknown condition.

A handgun was recovered at the scene.

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