Man Shot While Driving Pickup Truck in Boyle Heights

BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (KNN) — A man was wounded in a car shooting late Monday night in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollenbeck Division patrol units responded to the Arco gas station in the 3400 block of Whittier Boulevard for a shooting victim shortly after 11 p.m.

When officers arrived on scene, they located a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The victim told police he was driving through the area when someone shot at his truck.

One bullet hole was observed in the drivers side door of the victim’s pickup truck that was parked at the gas station.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the location and transported the patient to a local hospital. His condition is currently unknown.

Gabriel Pabon, Video Journalist / KNN