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<\/p>\nAt least one person appeared to have been shot and another person suspected of firing a gun was taken into custody near a watch party for the much-anticipated Mexico vs. South Korea game in Koreatown. <\/p>\n
The gunfire occurred shortly before 7 p.m. near James M. Wood Boulevard and Normandie Avenue, about a block away from Seoul International Park, where crowds of people had gathered to watch the World Cup match, according to a Times reporter who witnessed the gunfire. <\/p>\n
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The reporter said he heard three gunshots and saw a man in brown pants firing into the air. <\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately have details about the shooting.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to a report of shooting in the 800 block of Irolo Street around 6:44 p.m. At least one person was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Times video taken at the scene shows one man lying on the ground, his leg bleeding and wrapped with a green garment as a tourniquet, while others help him. Nearby, an armed police officer stands guard over another man, also on the ground, wearing brown pants and a black shirt. The man does not appear to be injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not reach for anything,\u201d the officer yells at the man.<\/p>\n
The officer then asks people standing nearby where the gun is. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know,\u201d a woman yells back. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s the victim?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cOver there,\u201d several people tell the officer. <\/p>\n
The man in brown pants is later seen in handcuffs and being led away while screaming at someone. Paramedics later put the injured man on a gurney and place him in an ambulance. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police cut off traffic going east on Olympic Boulevard starting at Ardmore Avenue. Several ambulances could be seen going north on the avenue, just a couple of blocks from the Olympic entrance at Seoul International Park.<\/p>\n
Some bystanders said they were unaware of the shooting but reported hearing fireworks earlier.<\/p>\n
Hordes of soccer fans wearing Mexico and South Korea jerseys were walking down Olympic Boulevard energized but not alarmed in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person appeared to have been shot and another person suspected of firing a gun was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32674,7384,20621,32679,32678,7528,32671,32669,32672,32673,32676,6920,112,32675,32670,32677],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-armed-police-officer","tag-arrest","tag-crowd","tag-custody","tag-gunfire","tag-incident","tag-james-m-wood-boulevard","tag-man","tag-much-anticipated-mexico","tag-normandie-avenue","tag-p-m","tag-people","tag-seoul","tag-seoul-international-park","tag-south-korea-game","tag-times-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}