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A man in his 20s was shot several times Monday night while repairing a car in Boyle Heights, authorities said.

The shooting occurred about 6:15 p.m. near 5th and State streets, according to Los Angeles Police Officer Mike Lopez.

The man was outside doing mechanical repairs to a car when an unknown woman approached him and began a brief conversation, LAPD Det. Steven Juarez said.

Los Angeles police are investigating a shooting that occurred over the weekend at a Hollywood Hills house party that left one person wounded.

The shooting occurred Saturday about 2:30 a.m. in the 6600 block of Lakeridge Road, near the Lake Hollywood reservoir, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said.

The gunman opened fire in the residence, sending a bullet into the abdomen of another man, Lopez said.

Two men who were out walking were killed this weekend in separate shootings just a few blocks apart in the San Fernando Valley, police said Monday.

Jose Zeron, 37, was walking home about 4 a.m. Saturday in the 15500 block of Nordhoff Street when he was gunned down, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Los Angeles school district will pay $88 million to settle sexual abuse cases at two elementary schools where complaints about the teachers behavior had surfaced long before their arrest, officials confirmed Monday. 

The settlement with 30 children and their families, finalized over the weekend, is the second largest in district history, and brings a dark chapter to an apparent close.

A Los Angeles federal jury on Monday found two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies guilty of beating an inmate and falsifying reports to cover up the attack, the latest in a series of convictions connected to the county's jail abuse scandal.

A married couple found this weekend with fatal gunshot wounds in their Oxnard home died in a murder-suicide, investigators said Monday.

Oxnard police responded to the home in the 5400 block of Barrymore Drive about 4:40 p.m. Saturday, where they found the bodies of Sinia Lemus, 35, and Saul Lemus, 47.

Police initially said the two deaths were being investigated as homicides.