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A man drove his truck up onto a sidewalk and nearly hit several pedestrians. bystanders then pulled him from his vehicle, and when officers got to the scene, they found him dead. cnn's natasha chen is in los angeles. what a story here, natasha. what more do we know? >> reporter: pamela, like you were mentioning, he had driven up onto a sidewalk so potentially could have harmed a lot of people here. luckily the bystand eers were n injured. this happened late friday night into the early morning hours of saturday, and just after midnight are when hawthorne police were called to the scene. they sa...

Enough how much fun everyone was having be having. before those shots were fired, he said there was no arguing, there was nothing that escalated to a shootout and police are still trying to piece together what happened. as you can imagine, the scene is complex. there were victims inside and outside. meanwhile, peter parker told me he can't step back inside to deejay. he said he'll never play another record there again because what started as a night of fun ended so differently, and forever he's reminded of the horror that he saw unfold. pamela? >> understandably traumatizing for him and others...

Behind this? >> reporter: the motive remains unclear. three men are in custody, ranging from age 22 to 33. this after you mentioned 15 people were shot, including one woman in her 20s who didn't survive. she died at the scene. 14 others injured, and i spoke just moments ago with the deejay who was enjoying a night of fun with everyone inside of that venue. he describes what he saw. listen in. >> i'm kind of spinning on the stage having fun in my moment, and i hear it. pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. they're still shooting, but the music is playing. i turn the music off and i'm like, okay, l...

Standing outside there. at that point he lost control of the truck and drove into a tree. the l.a. county sheriff's department is assisting in this case, and they say that people tried to pull him out of the vehicle at that point. but instead he was able to accelerate. eventually actually ran the truck into a nearby building. and that's when people were actually able to pull him out of the vehicle, a physical fight ensued and apparently he was beaten. when police arrived at that point, they saw that he had blunt force trauma. paramedics tried to help him but he was pronounced dead at the scene...

For our community to wake up this morning and hear that 15 individuals in one setting and one moment were shot, that one young woman lost her life, it's just heartbreaking and unacceptable. we've seen these instances of mass shootings happen across the country, but obviously this sits super close to home for us. our police department has been, of course, on the scene since the first moment investigating, helping folks, triaging the scene. they were able to get three individuals into custody today, but of course our community is going to be listening closely because we need a whole lot more ans...