A man was shot and wounded early Monday morning in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The shooting occurred at 12:30 a.m. in the 5900 block of Denver Avenue, according to Officer A. Delatorre of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center.
The 35-year-old man was standing alongside the street when another man walked up, shot him and ran away, Delatorre said.
The victim was taken by paramedics to a hospital where he had stable vital signs, the officer said.
A description of the suspect was not available and the shooting was believed gang-related, he said.