Homeless Man Admits To Venice Bar Shooting Caught On Tape

LOS ANGELES, CA — A homeless man pleaded no contest to attempted murder Friday for opening fire outside a bar in Venice, wounding another man in an attack caught on cellphone video.

Robert Leo Mewhorter, 48, admitted to allegations that he used a gun and caused great bodily injury during the March 7, 2018, attack, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

The shooting began with a bar fight. Mewhorter left the bar after getting into an argument with a man, returned soon after and opened fire, injuring the other man, according to prosecutors.

He was arrested the next day by the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division and has remained behind bars.

Mewhorter faces 22 years in state prison, with sentencing set next Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom.

City News Service