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EL MONTE >> A driver fatally shot a man and wounded a boy in another car late Tuesday night.

Deputies said the boy is in stable condition at a hospital.

Authorities said occupants from both cars exchanged words before the shooting.

The coroner’s office has not released the name of the dead man pending notification of his relatives. Coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter said the man died at Greater El Monte Community Hospital in South El Monte minutes after the shooting near Garvey and Durfee avenues.

A car carrying three adults and a boy was stopped at a red light around 11 p.m. when a gray sedan stopped next to it.

It wasn’t clear if an argument broke out. A sheriff’s statement only said “a verbal interaction occurred between the occupants of both vehicles.” Homicide detectives couldn’t be reached for comment on Wednesday.

Deputies said the sedan’s driver stepped out, walked up to the other car and fired several times into the backseat. The rounds hit the two rear passengers. The suspect got back into the sedan and drove off.

The driver of the other car and the woman sitting in the front passenger seat were not injured. Deputies said the driver took the two injured passengers to a hospital where the man died.

Deputies didn’t know what was the relationship between the victims.

The suspect was only described as a Latino man.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymous tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or use the website lacrimestoppers.org.