Crime & Safety
Innocent Bystander, 17, Shot Outside Granada Hills House Party
The girl was rushed to a hospital with stable vital signs after a fight broke out between two teenage boys, leading to the shooting.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities this week are investigating a spring break house party shooting that wounded 17-year-old girl, who was an innocent bystander. According to Los Angeles Police Department detectives, the girl was shot when a fight between two teenage males escalated to gunfire at a Granada Hills house party late Saturday.
The shooting was reported at 11:25 p.m.on Saturday outside of the house on Ludlow Street near Blucher Avenue, according to a dispatcher at the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations Center.
The shooting suspect, 17, and another boy, 18, got into a fight before it escalated to a shooting according to police.
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The suspect fired several rounds from a semi-automatic weapon, missing his target but striking the girl, the dispatcher said. Paramedics took the girl to a hospital where her vital signs were stable.
There was no word about the status of the suspect. Police did not immediately announce an arrest.
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City News Service. Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.
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