A man was hospitalized Saturday after being shot in the abdomen during an altercation in Hollywood.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division responded at approximately 2:37 a.m. to the 7400 block of Sunset Boulevard, near Gardner Street, where they learned a man and a woman were arguing outside the El Compadre restaurant when another man tried to intervene.
The man who was arguing with the woman drew a gun and shot the victim, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.
The suspect ran away from the scene.
Paramedics dispatched rushed one person to a hospital, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The person’s condition was not immediately known.