The victim was approached by a man in his mid-50s who opened fire before fleeing in a pickup truck. No word on a motive.

—KTLA5

A 40-year-old man was wounded when shots were fired into a crowd after a nightclub brawl in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, Calif., early Wednesday. After security personnel broke up the fight, six of the combatants got into two cars, and one of them opened fire. Police have been unable to identify the suspects.

—Los Angeles Daily News

A 45-year-old cable technician was shot and critically wounded during a robbery attempt in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Ill., Wednesday afternoon. Police said he was sitting in his vehicle in an alley when he was approached by a man who stole his wallet and shothim in the stomach. The suspect is being sought. At least five people were shot in Chicago on Wednesday, including an 18-year-old man shot in the leg during an apparent robbery in the Humboldt Park neighborhood; a 56-year-old man shot in the head and critically wounded in the South Shore neighborhood, an attack police believe may be domestic in nature; and a 29-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman shot in a possible drive-by attack in the West Woodlawn neighborhood.

—Chicago Tribune

Imani Porter, 20, was shot in the head and killed while sitting in a car in the parking lot of Steak ‘n Shake restaurant in Homestead, Pa., Wednesday night. The victim was the uncle of the rapper Wiz Khalifa, who tweeted after the shooting, “My uncle was younger and