{"id":433871,"date":"2025-12-08T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433871\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:00:37","slug":"lapd-searching-for-gunman-who-shot-man-in-the-face-in-downtown-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433871\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD searching for gunman who shot man in the face in downtown Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are searching for a gunman who fled after shooting a man in the face in downtown Los Angeles early Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident was reported around 1 a.m. near 7th and Crocker streets, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Madison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arriving officers found a 38-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. Video showed the unidentified victim holding a towel to his face as he was loaded into an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to a nearby hospital in unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Copy-of-mug-or-photo-bkg-25.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Downtown Los Angeles shooting\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/88696998e7c79f106db5ca40bf0338ec.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A victim is loaded into an ambulance after being shot in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2025. (KNN News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness told police they were speaking with the victim when the suspect approached, pulled out a handgun and fired, Madison said. The witness fled and alerted authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect had left the scene before officers arrived. It was unclear whether the suspect and victim knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTLA\u2019s Nancy Fontan contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a gunman who fled after shooting a man in the face in downtown Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2499,2961,224,9740,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-433871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-downtown-los-angeles","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-police-department","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115685493252562262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}