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."
The attacks began about 10 a.m. south of Sunset, police said.
A young man in a white tank top was spotted walking up the street yelling and firing a handgun in the air. He then turned to firing at passing motorists who seemed to be picked at random, including the man in the Mercedes, police sources said.
The gunman was eventually shot by a detective and an off-duty officer who may have been working on a movie set nearby.
Police have so far found no motive in the shooting.
In addition to a gun, the attacker also displayed a knife during the incident. LAPD detectives have gone to the man’s home to make sure there was not a domestic incident or some other act of violence that precipitated the shooting.
I'm sharked I tells ya!
The motive is obvious. He was hungry. His blood sugar was low. That's why he was screaming, "I want a Clark Bar!"
The Virginia campus shooter was a Muslim
The bomber in Oklahoma City was a Muslim
Seattle
Times Square
Obama is a Muslim, too...
I didnt see this on the TV news.
Therefore it didn’t happen.
I BID YOU GOOD DAY, SIR! A nice pile of sand awaits my head!
It is truly evil. The reporter at the end of their video laments “Why did he do this, who was he?”. Clearly the witnesses said he was shouting Allah Akbar. I mean it is on their own video tape. The Devil Media has a forked tongue. The MSM is the devil’s mouthpiece.
Another case of “workplace violence.”
The fact that he was screaming Allahu Akbar means nothing to them. They are lying POS and afraid to tell the truth. Some day soon the Sh** will hit the fan over this PC crap.
“Name being withheld pending notification of next of kin..”
What then?
He would shout out random Bible quotes and get in people’s faces and tell people he saw the Evil in their souls and that they were going to Hell because they didn’t know Jesus.
Sometime crazy is just crazy.
The Muzzy probably went to mosque earlier that morning and got all fired up for jihad from a sermon given by his imam. He named it and claimed it, the traffic intersection that is, for Allah and decided to do a little individual jihad agains the infidel. Eventually the infidels took him down.
I betcha he learned to shoot by watching Hollywood movies, with his gun sideways. Most people can’t hit the broad side of a barn that way. One policeman commented that the technique has saved more gang bangers’ lives than emergency rooms.
I just saw a report on this over Fox News. If I remember correctly, their information came from the LA Times. They reported that the man was yelling “something about wanting to die.” Could that be what “Allahu akbar!” means?
The SPCA should visit his mosque to see if the koranimals are tethered properly since this one chewed through its’ leash.
Proper koranimal management should be a priority issue.
Janet’s take is it’s workplace rage - or some such ... She’s looking for a conservative ‘lone wolf’ not some radical Muslim killer...
Notice in the video shot from approx 15 stories up how drivers swerved to avoid the shooter rather than flooring it and running him over.
Nonsense.
This was clearly a case of road rage violence.
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This is why I always, always carry a 1911 with at least three magazines in my truck.
Bwaaaahaahhaahhhaaa! Stupid police. The motive is "Islam", period.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!