A police dive team is searching the water at the La Brea Tar Pits for a weapon Thursday as part of a homicide investigation.
Details regarding the homicide case were not immediately available. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department's gang homicide unit began the search at about 9 a.m. in the 5700 block of Wilshire Boulevard.
Aerial video showed divers in the water and officers on a boat near the tar pits' animal statues.
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