16-year-old girl fatally shot after high school football game in California, 2 others injured

Girl shot dead after Calif. school football game

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Police were searching Saturday for a person who shot and killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded two men following a football game at a high school in Southern California.

The girl, a student at Wilson High School, died at a hospital. It was unclear what led to Friday night’s shooting at the school in Long Beach, police Sgt. Dina Zapalski said.

Gunfire erupted around 10 p.m., as several hundred people filed out of the game against arch-rival Poly High School.

A cousin, Han Yin, identified the girl as Melody Ross, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported. City Councilman Gary DeLong described Ross as “an innocent bystander who was not involved” in the altercation.

An 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The two men were not students, according to DeLong.

Friends and family members erected a makeshift memorial with flowers and hand-written notes to Ross on a street near the school.