Crime & Safety
1 Wounded in Boyle Heights Shooting
A man was wounded Monday morning in a shooting in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES -- A man was wounded Monday morning in a shooting in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, authorities said.
It happened at 12:30 a.m. at Soto and Marengo streets, a dispatcher in the Los Angeles Police Department Operations Center said.
The man was in the intersection when a suspect walked toward him and fired one shot that struck him, the dispatcher said.
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The man was hospitalized with stable vital signs, he said.
The shooting was believed to have been gang-related, the dispatcher said.