Hollywood shootout: Gunman calmly targeted drivers, pedestrians
A gunman pointed his weapon at more than a dozen people Friday as he randomly opened fire on drivers and pedestrians in Hollywood before being fatally shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers.
Video shows the gunman calmly pointing his handgun and opening fire on passing cars near Vine Street and Sunset Boulevard near the ArcLight Cinema.
A man driving a Mercedes was shot in the jaw and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was in critical condition. He is expected to survive.
Video: Witness captures dramatic footage of shooting
The scene resembled a fast-moving Hollywood production, said some witnesses, leaving them with the sensation that they'd witnessed something surreal.
"When I heard it, I didn't react to it being real," said Greg Watkins, a student at the nearby Los Angeles Recording School who was walking on the street and had just taken off his headphones to take a call from his girlfriend when the shooting began.
"This is Hollywood, and they do film stuff all the time," he said, standing near the ArcLight Cinemas. "I honestly thought they were filming something."
Serge Durand, who said he was visiting from Atlanta, filmed the attacks from a friend's apartment above the intersection. In the video, a gray car swerves to avoid the shooter as he points what appears to be a weapon at the car.
"Is this the end?" Durand said he heard the shooter exclaim.
Emmanuel Fierro, 21, staying with a friend in another apartment above the intersection and also a student at the recording school, said, "I walk through these streets every day to go to school."
"I couldn't believe what was happening in the streets," he said, "but I guess this is Hollywood."
Fierro, you just experienced an embryonic twitch in the birth of Hollywoodistan. May you see the light before it's too late.
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It's interesting but not very surprising to note that NONE of the mainstream media's news networks, not ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, or CNN reported that the shooter was yelling, "Allahu Akbar" during the shooting rampage.
I guess had the media reported on that 1 VERY important detail, we might have gotten a false impression regarding the "Religion of Peace". Also reporting the news TRUTHFULLY and OBJECTIVELY would have made the media Islamaphobic.
I'm so glad that I finally understand.
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