Los Angeles (CNN) -- Los Angeles police have linked three people arrested Wednesday to nine shotgun robberies and two murders, including Sunday's fatal shooting of an MTV producer, a police spokeswoman said Thursday. Investigators connected a string of robberies and killings because of similar descriptions for the robber and the use of shotguns, which a police official called "a rare weapon to use in a street crime." The crimes happened in just blocks from Olympic Boulevard, in and around the Wilshire section of Los Angeles over the past two weeks, police said. The suspects are Jabaar Vincent Thomas, 26, Destiny Young, 29, and Richard Edward Anderson, 33, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Mitzie Grasso said Thursday.
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Three suspects were arrested Wednesday in the killing of an MTV producer
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MTV music coordinator Gabe Ben-Meir was killed by a shotgun blast Sunday
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L.A. police identified 9 shotgun robberies and 2 murders in the past two weeks
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The crimes happened around the Wilshire section of Los Angeles
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