A number of businesses responded Wednesday morning to experiences of a attainable kidnapping within the Angeles Nationwide Forest and ended up airlifting a gunshot sufferer to a hospital.
Los Angeles Police Division officers responded at about 7 a.m. to a “attainable kidnap” within the 14800 block of Little Tujunga Canyon Highway, LAPD spokesperson Charles Miller mentioned.
“The sufferer was ultimately situated along with his car” and airlifted to a hospital struggling from gunshot wounds, he mentioned. Miller mentioned police have been nonetheless holding the crime scene at 11:30 a.m.
Initially, hearth officers have been referred to as to answer a site visitors collision, with a car on the shoulder or an embankment, mentioned Los Angeles Hearth Division spokesperson Brian Humphrey.
“Our encounter with the affected person was on federal land,” he mentioned. “There could also be a criminal offense concerned with this.”
“We transported one affected person, flown by LAFD helicopter to a regional trauma middle,” Humphrey mentioned.
It is a growing story and might be up to date.
