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Police are looking for a gunman who shot a man outside an Echo Park Burger King this morning.
The shooting happened at Glendale Boulevard and Reservoir Street at around 8:30 a.m.,
according to ABC7
. The victim, a man in his 30s, was shot once and taken to the hospital.
KTLA says
he was shot in the neck.
A jogger in the area called police after hearing a shot fired and a man yelling. There's no description of the suspect. He was last seen running northbound on Alvarado Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Times .
UPDATE 10:49 p.m.: The shooting happened after two transients—one a regular customer of Burger King—got into an argument, according to The Eastsider LA . Police say the victim was shot in the leg, not the neck, as was reported earlier. Employees say they saw the man bleeding near the drive-through window.
