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Police were continuing to investigate a violent accident in front of an East Hollywood club where 36 people were injured and the driver injured by shooting.
Around 2 am on Saturday, a driver plowed a crowd outside the Vermont Hollywood Night Club, injuring dozens of clubs, pedestrians and sellers on the sidewalk outside.
After the collision, the driver was taken from the vehicle by the crowd and assaulted, a person pulling a firearm and pulling the driver, said the Los Angeles police.
While the shooter is still exceptional, the driver – identified as Fernando Ramirez – was placed in police custody. The video of the scene showed that Ramirez beat bloody as the police took him.
Here is what we know so far.
Who was the suspected driver?
Ramirez, 29, was a boss of the club who was thrown, but returned to the area in a vehicle around 2 am, said LAPD officials. The vehicle struck street sellers and dozens of late evening clubs, causing multiple medical emergencies and endearing fear and anger among the crowd.
The passers -by fired Ramirez from his vehicle and attacked him – the video showed him struck and kicked – and, at one point, he was shot, said LAPD officials.
On Sunday, he was listed in a stable state after being interrupted, police said. He was also arrested for suspicion of aggression with a deadly weapon with force likely to produce large bodily injuries.
Before the Saturday morning attack, Ramirez had already spent months behind bars.
On January 10, 2020, he was sentenced to four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of injuries with a serious injury, a violation of civil rights and an improvement in hatred crimes to attack a black Whole Foods employee.
However, a court of appeal in January 2021 canceled part of the verdict after the Court discovered a conversation registered with an officer raped the rights of Miranda de Ramirez. The Court of Appeal informed the violation of civil rights and the improvement of the crime of hatred and canceled the sentence, but confirmed the condemnation aggravated by the battery because it was not “affected by Miranda’s error”.
In 2020, Ramirez was found guilty of a 2019 battery on a police officer and resisted the arrest and obtained 180 days in prison.
In 2021, he was found guilty of assault with great bodily injury and two counts of resistance to arrest and was sentenced to 194 days in prison and a year of probation. The same year, he pleaded guilty to corporal injuries on a spouse and was sentenced to three years of probation with 234 days in prison.
Kimberly Edds, spokesperson for the Orange County District Prosecutor’s Office, said Ramirez had a conducting under the burden of influence, and a distinct domestic battery charge, including a violation of a protection order resulting from a incident in 2022, also pending in the courts of Orange County.
Who is the alleged shooter?
The police said that after Ramirez had been removed from the vehicle, after being placed on the equipment of food sellers, someone left a pistol and pulled it on the back.
Norma officer Eisenman, a lapd spokesperson, said on Sunday that the person who fired on Ramirez was generally. Police described the alleged shooter as a man, Latino, about 5 feet 7 inches and 150 to 170 pounds. It was seen for the last time carrying a blue dodgers jacket, a light blue jersey with the number “5” and the blue jeans. He had gauges – a type of body jewelry – in both ears and a bearder. Anyone with information can call Stoppers crime to (800) 222-8477.
A photo of the man (in the center of the blue shirt) accused of having shot a driver outside an East Hollywood club. (LAPD)
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What happened to the victims?
At least 36 victims suffered injuries ranging from minor pain to serious fractures and lacerations. Several individuals were hit by the vehicle and some were briefly trapped below. At least 23 people were hospitalized.
Given the size of the crowd, Captain of LAPD, Ben Fernandes, said that the incident could have easily passed to a spiral in a mass event.
“Quite honestly, I think it’s a miracle”, Fernandes said to NBC-4 News.
A witness told ABC-7 news that he had seen dozens of people on the ground after the accident. Another said it was “like a film”.
“You see shoes flying, you see change, money, there are hot dog stands that were outside the bar … They were touched,” said the witness.
Eduardo Lopez, who worked in his Taco truck at the bottom of rue de la Boîte de Nuit du early on Saturday, said he had heard the accident and the following cries.
He told NBC-4 that he had seen people running and “many injured people.”
The club published a statement following the incident.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that occurred early Saturday morning outside our place,” published the Vermont Hollywood Club in a press release online And outside its doors. “We are working in close collaboration with the police to ensure that the person responsible for this horrible act is fully responsible.”
