2 GANG SHOOTINGS IN THE VALLEY GUNMEN ATTACK IN VAN NUYS, SYLMAR.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer SYLMAR - In their ongoing battle against gangsters, police searched Friday for gunmen in two separate gang-related shootings that left people wounded. The first occurred in Van Nuys about 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the 7900 block of Brimfield Avenue, near Blythe Street, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Detective Joseph Aparicio of the Van Nuys Division. The victim, who was not identified by police, was standing outside an apartment complex when a person approached him on foot and fired a round into his leg without saying a word, Aparicio said Friday. The victim was treated and released from Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History . Aparicio said it appears the victim had some affiliation with gangs and the attack occurred in an area notorious for gang activity. The second gang attack occurred in Sylmar about a half-hour later in the 13000 block of Glenoaks Boulevard, police said. There, a 24-year-old San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. man drove his silver Buick Regal to a liquor store and, as he got out of his car, people suspected of being gang members pulled up beside him and asked him where he was from, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Kandis Schmidt. ``He says, `I don't gang-bang,' '' the detective said. A person then shot him once in his upper back, with the bullet traveling toward his abdomen abdomen, in humans and other vertebrates, portion of the trunk between the diaphragm and lower pelvis. In humans the wall of the abdomen is a muscular structure covered by fascia, fat, and skin. , Schmidt said. ``The bullet traumatized his spine,'' the detective said. The shooting victim was left temporarily with no feeling in his legs and he worried he would be paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. , but his spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. was in good condition on Friday, the detective said. Police suspect the gangsters may have been planning to take the car of the victim, who remained hospitalized on Friday. Detectives were investigating whether the victim was affiliated with gangs. Thursday's attack in Sylmar marks at least the eighth gang attack in the Northeast Valley in a month. |
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