A multi-agency search was underway for a gunman after a shooting in San Fernando that left one man dead and a woman and another man wounded, officials said Friday.

Just after 2 p.m., a shooting was reported in the area of Fourth and Harps streets, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott.

“One male adult was pronounced dead at the scene,” said Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

There were conflicting reports regarding the number of people wounded in the shooting. Sheriff’s officials said two people were taken to the hospital, while LAFD said firefighters “quickly treated and transported” three patients, two of whom were in critical condition.

Detectives with the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau were assisting the San Fernando Police Department with the investigation, according to Navarro-Suarez.

Navarro-Suarez said two men and a woman were shot — one of the men fatally — and there was “an active containment of the area.”

The suspect was possibly holed up in a home just north of the original shooting scene and residents were being advised to shelter in place.

Police helicopters hovered in the cloudy sky over the neighborhood, searching the area with spotlights as rain began to fall.

Officers from the Burbank and Los Angeles police departments were also on scene assisting with the operation.

Before sheltering inside from the wet weather, one local resident, who declined to give his name, said it was a quiet community and the day’s events were unusual.

Staff writer Wes Woods II and City News Service contributed to this report.