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Wilshire Center Internet cafe customer shot while playing computer game
An Internet cafe customer was playing a computer game when he was shot and wounded early today in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, according to police.
The shooting was reported just after 2 a.m. inside an Internet cafe near Sixth Street and South Hobart Boulevard, said Sgt. Julius Guay of the Los Angeles Police Department's Olympic Station.
"One person was shot multiple times," Guay said. "He was taken to County USC Medical Center, where he is being cared for."
The shooting occurred at Hazza Internet and PC Games, where the victim was seated at one of the computer stations playing a game, a police sergeant at the scene told an RMG News camera crew.
Police were looking for one suspect, Guay said.
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