LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Two suspects remained at large Saturday following a shooting that occurred in the crowded Hollywood tourist district and left a man hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head.
Police said the victim — apparently a good Samaritan who tried to intervene in a dispute — suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting, which occurred shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday outside the Ovation Hollywood shopping center.
Police said the suspects were a man and a woman, both possibly in their 20s.
The victim was not immediately identified, but police told local media he is believed to be 37 years old. Some street vendors told the station the man is a local resident known as “Scooter.”
According to police, the man witnessed some type of dispute or argument on the street and tried to intervene, when the male suspect pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the head near the Hard Rock Café. The victim managed to stumble away from the shooting scene, toward the entrance to the Metro B (Red) Line station on Hollywood Boulevard, where he collapsed.