HORROR pictures show a car riddled with bullet holes after a woman passenger was gunned down close to the USC campus.
Emergency services rushed to the scene of the bloody ambush in Exposition Park, LA, at about 9.30pm on Tuesday.
Cops found a woman with multiple gunshot wounds after she was struck in a hail of gunfire in the area of 41st Drive and Vermont Avenue.
Footage from AIR7 HD showed a white car covered in bullet holes with shell casings strewn on the ground close to it.
LA Police Department believe the woman was sitting in the passenger seat of the parked car when it was ambushed. It's not clear who was in the passenger seat, reports abc7.
The woman, in her 30s, was conscious and breathing as she was put in the ambulance before being rushed to hospital.
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"The person is blessed to survive something of this magnitude," said LAPD Sgt. Craig Orange.
Police say the shooter took off from the scene in a white sedan with tinted windows and was last seen driving west on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard towards Normandie Avenue.
At around 9.50pm, a man was seen being placed in handcuffs – but it's unclear whether it was connected to the incident.
The investigation is ongoing.
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It comes after one person died while 46 were injured in a spate of shootings to hit the US during Spring Break.
One person was killed at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, while four were hospitalized with minor injuries during the final weekend of the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
Two shootings hit Miami Beach within 48 hours amid spring break celebrations, leaving five people wounded.
And ten people were injured as gunfire erupted in Dallas on Sunday.
One person died while 28 were hurt, including two babies, after gunfire erupted in Dumas on Saturday.
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