The brother of Los Angeles Dodger relief pitcher Josh Ravin was shot and wounded in Woodland Hills, and police Monday were trying to find the suspect in the case.
The Dodgers player blamed a “mentally unstable person” for the shooting of his brother.
The shooting happened near 22901 Vanowen St., LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said.
“A man in his 30s was shot multiple times,” Lopez said Sunday after the early morning shooting. “He was taken to a hospital in stable condition and remains in stable condition today.”
Lopez said the gunman also was a man in his 30s and both the victim and the gunman were white.
Pitcher Josh Ravin posted several statements about the shooting of his brother, Joel Ravin, on the player’s Twitter account.
In his first statement on the attack, Ravin wrote, “My brother was shot three times this morning by a mentally unstable person. We don’t need gun control. We need mental health control.”
About 12:30 p.m. Ravin posted again, “I do not know any details on the shooting except that he was shot five times not three. He is in stable condition.”
Then about 2:30 p.m. he posted a third statement. “Last time I checked guns weren’t sentient.”
About 5:45 p.m. Ravin posted a fourth statement. “We know who the shooter is. So does the LAPD. Justice is on the way!”
Ravin’s mother, Lana Ravin of Woodland Hills, told the Los Angeles Daily News that Joel Ravin was shot five times and had a bullet lodged in his kidney and one in his neck. One of the bullets nicked his spinal cord and her son Joel had surgery on his arm this morning, but there are more surgeries to come, she said.
Lana Ravin also told the newspaper her son knew his assailant for years and was shot while exiting his car in the complex where he lived. His mother said her son was found by his girlfriend and he told her the gunman’s name.
Ashish Madan, who lives near the scene, told ABC7 he heard two shots and saw a wounded man lying on the ground.
— City News Service