Two adults and two minors were found fatally shot inside a home in North Hills on Wednesday night, after Los Angeles police were called to the 16000 block of Londelius Street at 7:50 p.m.
Officers found four people dead inside the residence, and a large number of emergency responders gathered in the area as helicopter footage showed police tape stretching across part of the residential street. The scene drew immediate attention in a quiet neighborhood where the block was quickly sealed off.
Homicide detectives are now leading the investigation, but police said they are not searching for a suspect. Early evidence points to a multiple murder-suicide, although officials have not released the ages, genders or identities of the victims. The four deaths raise the possibility that the violence started and ended inside the home before officers arrived.
That is the central fact investigators are working from now: the killings appear to have been contained to one house, with no broader search underway for anyone outside it. Even so, detectives still have to sort out exactly how the shooting unfolded, what led to it and whether the early theory holds up as evidence is reviewed.
For the people who live near Londelius Street, the most immediate answer is already clear. Four members of one household are dead, and North Hills is left with a crime scene that may end as a murder-suicide but still demands a full homicide probe before police can say so with certainty.
