An 18-year-old woman was hospitalized Monday morning for treatment of a gunshot wound suffered when a suspect in a vehicle fired at her while she sat inside another vehicle in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles.
The shooting was reported just before 2 a.m. around Buckingham Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to Officer A. Delatorre of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center.
The suspect fired several shots at the woman, Delatorre said. The suspect fled the scene.
The woman was taken to a hospital, where her vital signs were stable, he said.
A news videographer at the scene said a bullet grazed the woman’s face.