Gunman killed in Hollywood, Sunset and Vine, Dec. 9, witness-"BAM!"

MJonmind

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this. <br />On December 9th, in Hollywood on Sunset and Vine intersection (locations in Hollywood Tonight video) a lone gunman opened fire all around him,<br />hitting (injuring) at least one man. Police opened fire and killed the gunman (sounds like he could have been shouting something Arabic).  It's kinda weird that at 1:25 a witness comes out and says, "Bam, bam the gun went off".<br />He's wearing a Hard Rock t-shirt.  <br />Just weird.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bn-k2UtBg&feature=g-logo<br /><br /><br />

everlastinglove_MJ

[size=12pt]Hollywood gunman shot dead by policeman from movie set[/size]<br /><br /><br />By Reuters<br />Saturday, December 10, 2011<br /><br />LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire on motorists in the heart of Hollywood on Friday, wounding three people before he was shot to death by an off-duty police officer who had been working on a nearby film set.<br /> <br />The bizarre mid-morning incident, which some witnesses initially mistook for a movie, touched off fear, confusion and panic at the famed Hollywood intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street.<br /> <br />Police said on Friday night they were still trying to determine why the 26-year-old gunman, whose name was not immediately released, began firing randomly at motorists and pedestrians.<br /> <br />A 40-year-old man who was struck by a bullet while driving through the intersection in a silver Mercedes was listed in critical condition at a local hospital, Los Angeles Police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said.<br /> <br />Two other men suffered minor injuries, one when he was grazed by a bullet and the other when glass from a car window shattered near his face, Eisenman said. None of the wounded were identified by name.<br /> <br />Eisenman said a plainclothes detective and an off-duty motorcycle officer who was working a security detail on the set of a film in the area were the first to engage the gunman.<br /> <br />“He was the one who shot the suspect,” Eisenman said of the off-duty officer.<br /> <br />Police said they didn’t know which production the officer was working on when he responded to the call.<br /> <br />‘THEY’RE SHOOTING AT US’<br /> <br />A spokesman for FilmLA, an agency that coordinates film and television permits in Los Angeles, said the closest movie set was “Gangster Squad,” a crime drama starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn.<br /> <br />That set was several blocks away from the intersection of Sunset and Vine, the spokesman said, although he could not confirm that the officer had been working there.<br /> <br />Witness Micah Williams told local KCAL-9 TV that he and a friend were walking nearby when the gunman began shooting “in every which direction.”<br /> <br />Williams said at first he and his friend thought the suspect was part of a movie.<br /> <br />“Then the third one ricocheted right by our head and I was like, ‘Dude, they’re shooting at us’,” Williams said.<br /> <br />A series of videos taken from a nearby office tower and posted on Twitter showed the gunman, dressed in black pants and a white shirt. walking in the intersection firing what appeared to be a handgun as motorists slammed on their brakes and veered out of the way.<br /> <br />Police were then seen arriving on the scene and running in the man’s direction. Several more shots were fired out of the camera’s view.<br /> <br />Another brief clip, posted on the Los Angeles Times website, showed the man firing at a black pick-up truck at close range.<br /> <br />Witness Oscar Herrera told local KCBS-TV he saw the shooter fire his gun at several cars traveling near or through the intersection.<br /> <br />Herrera told KCBS that when the suspect apparently ran out of bullets he put the gun into his waistband and took out a knife before he was shot by police.<br /><br />http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/10/hollywood-gunman-shot-dead-by-policeman-from-movie-set/

Sarahli

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Friends and neighbors of a gunman who was shot dead by police as he fired randomly at passing cars on a Hollywood street — critically wounding one man — say he was deeply troubled by the recent breakup with his girlfriend.<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-10/hollywood-gunman-shooting/51786112/1?csp=hf<br /><br />It's not a terrorist attack. But fiction met reality or the other way around.

Tink

"BAM!" is a word we use in comics, and the old Batman tv series, lol. BAM! POW! KAPOW!<br /><br />Anyway, there was a real hero that day: the man screaming down at the shooter, from the 4th floor, who's holding a video camera. He figured the shooter couldn't hit him from that distance, and he was trying to distract him long enough to save lives.<br /><br />Shame about the loss of that fellow who was shot, though. <br /><br />He was a MUSIC EXEC, wouldn't you know? John Atterberry.<br />http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/12/sunset_vine_hollywood_officer_shooting_lapd.php