A.V. DEPUTIES ARREST 2 IN FATAL SHOOTING 1 KILLED, 2 OTHERS WOUNDED.

Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer

LANCASTER - Two Antelope Valley men are in custody after a weekend shooting among a nighttime crowd standing in a parking lot that killed a Palmdale man and wounded two others.

Ex-convict Kenjuan Adams, 26, and Charles Reynolds, 25, were arrested after deputies spotted a van resembling the gunman's getaway vehicle, a detective said Monday.

``We believe an argument broke out between the suspects and the victims. One of the suspects pulled a handgun and started shooting,'' sheriff's homicide Lt. Larry Lincoln said.

Killed was Demone Dozier, 28, of Palmdale, who died at a hospital. The shooting wounded two other men, one of whom remains hospitalized in critical condition, Lincoln said. The second was treated at a hospital and sent home.

The wounded men's names were not released.

The shooting occurred among at least 50 or 60 people who had gathered just after 2 a.m. Saturday in a parking lot at Division Street and Avenue J. Most of the crowd scattered when the shooting started, Lincoln said.

Detectives do not believe the gunmen and the victims knew each other and don't know what the shooting was about, Lincoln said. Detectives aren't sure why the crowd was in the parking lot, Lincoln said, but were told that people had gathered to continue a celebration or party that had been going on somewhere else.

Adams and Reynolds were both jailed in lieu of $1 million bail on suspicion of murder, sheriff's records show.