Police Investigate Burglary, Shooting In Santa Monica

SANTA MONICA, CA — Santa Monica police Wednesday are investigating a reported burglary and shooting that happened last week north of Montana Avenue.

Police responded May 21 to the 400 block of 10th Street, near Carlyle Avenue, to a reported burglary in progress and subsequent shooting, police said in a news release.

Police found a man in his 30s at the back of the property with a gunshot wound, officials said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition where he had surgery and is reportedly in stable condition. Police did not identify him but did say he was not a resident at the property he was found shot at.

Officers talked to two men at the scene where the shooting took place.

"Officers were notified by one of the men that he had shot the subject in the property," police said in a news release.

"Officers learned that the individual responsible for the shooting, male Asian in his 70s, and the witness, male Asian in his 60s, are the executors of the estate where the shooting took
place," police said in a news release.

"The men had arrived at the untenanted property to prepare it for a sale when they located the male white subject inside the property," police said.

Details surrounding the shooting are still under investigation, police said. No names were immediately released.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Santa Monica Police
Detectives at (310) 458-8941.

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