Hollywood Sees Shooting, Party Bus Collision and Pedestrian Fatality

[Updated Sunday at 11:25 p.m. with the suspect's description, the circumstances of the shooting and the victims' residences, which initially were unavailable.]

Four people were shot in Hollywood early Sunday morning as clubs and bars were closing up for the night, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, said Karen Rayner of the LAPD's Media Relations Section.

A 22-year-old North Hollywood woman was shot in her buttocks. A 46- year-old man from Riverside and a 21-year-old woman from Riverside both received graze wounds to the sides of their heads. A 29-year-old man from Atlanta was shot in the leg.

The shootings occurred near a nightclub close to Franklin Avenue and Cahuenga Boulevard  around 3 a.m., Rayner said.  The shooter was described as a black man in his early 20s with a thin build. He was wearing a blue and white shirt and his hair was styled with multiple twists held with small rubber bands. The suspect may have fled in a blue Chevrolet El Camino, Rayner said.

"Witnesses reported seeing a fight break out in front of a nightclub that erupted in gunfire,'' Rayner said. "When the shooting began the witnesses ran for cover, and some of them boarded a party bus that was parked nearby.''

Rayner said the driver of the party bus drove off to escape the gunfire.

Anyone with more information on the shooting is asked to contact Hollywood Area police Detective Kevin Becker at (213) 972-2967 or 1-877-LAPD-24-7.

- City News Service contributed to this report.

Party Bus Collision

A 22-year-old man hit by a party bus at the corner of McCadden Place and Yucca Street was severely injured late Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The party bus was traveling southbound on Yucca Street and had turned eastbound onto McCadden Place around 11:25 p.m. when Namar Burton of Murrieta was hit, according to a police news release.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and transported Burton to a local hospital where he was last reported in grave condition, said Rayner.

The cause of the collision is still under investigation.

Pedestrian Fatality

A 35-year-old man from Colorado walking into traffic lanes on 101 Hollywood Freeway was fatally struck Saturday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The man, whose identity is being withheld until his family is reached, was seen crossing northbound lanes and the center median before he was struck in a southbound lane by a 27-year-old driver in a Mini Cooper around 11 p.m., the CHP stated.

The accident resulted in partial closure of the freeway.

House Fire

Two cats died in a house fire in Hollywood Saturday morning.

The blaze at 6817 Leland Way was reported at 6:48 a.m., said Cecil Manresa, a public service officer at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Firefighters sent to the scene extinguished the fire in 13 minutes, he said.

A damage estimate and the cause of the fire was not immediately available.

No one was reported injured, he said.