2 Men Shot in Sherman Oaks Apartment Complex

By City News Service

Two men in their 20s were wounded in a shooting tonight in the courtyard of a Sherman Oaks apartment complex.

The shooting in the 4400 block of Murietta Avenue, near Moorpark Street north of Ventura Boulevard, was reported around 9:45 p.m., said Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section.

Both victims were taken to a hospital, but their conditions were not available, Eisenman said.

Three males fled the scene in a white four-door Chevrolet Cavalier, heading north on Murietta Avenue, Eisenman said.

The attached photo was sent to Patch by a reader who lives across the street from the scene of the incident.