Man Fires Weapon Outside Hollywood Nightclub

A man who had been escorted out of a Hollywood night club for being unruly fired a weapon at the establishment today, slightly wounding a security guard and a patron, police said.

The shooting occurred at La Vida Restaurant and Lounge at 1448 N. Gower St. around 1 a.m., said an officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Station.

The officer said a man in his 20s who was lead out of the club along with two friends by security staff for being unruly retrieved a handgun from his car down the street and fired in the direction of the club, hitting a male security guard in the thigh and grazing a female patron, also in the thigh.

"The man's injury was worse, but he was still upright,'' she said. The security guard sought treatment at a hospital, although his wound was not regarded as grave, but the woman declined hospital treatment, police said.

The gunman fled in a car and was being sought, police said.

— City News Service