A 23-year-old woman who was shot and killed in Compton was identified Wednesday.

Sheriff’s deputies located the victim after responding to a shooting call about 2:45 a.m. Friday in the 2100 block of North Kalsman Avenue, near Centennial High School.

“The victim was transported to a local area hospital and pronounced deceased,” according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department statement.

She was identified Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office as Kamico Boykin.

No additional details about the dead woman or any suspect description were immediately available from the sheriff’s department, but a news videographer recorded an encounter outside the Lynwood hospital with a woman with blood on her shirt, who was thought to have helped take the victim to St. Francis

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