{"id":512311,"date":"2010-04-03T22:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T02:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec70abce970b"},"modified":"2010-04-03T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T02:36:24","slug":"four-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-at-valley-village-restaurant-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/512311","title":{"rendered":"Four dead after gunman opens fire at Valley Village restaurant [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in Valley Village on Saturday afternoon, killing four people and wounding another.\" border=\"0\" class=\"leadphoto \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/media\/photo\/2010-04\/53086184.jpg\" style=\"margin: 9px; width: 369px; height: 207px; float: left;\" title=\"A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in Valley Village on Saturday afternoon, killing four people and wounding another.\"><\/img><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in Valley Village on Saturday afternoon, killing four people and wounding another.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:40 p.m., a lone gunman entered a restaurant on the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/search\/?address=11600+Riverside+Drive%2C+Los+Angeles\">11650 block of Riverside Drive<\/a>, said Los Angeles Police Officer Rosario Herrera.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were declared dead at the scene, police said. Two victims were taken to a local hospital, where one later died, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a white male in his 30s, is still at large, Herrera said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAt this moment, it is an ongoing investigation,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are unsure of the motive and we don\u2019t know exactly how it occurred.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources, who asked not to be identified because the investigation is ongoing, said they believe the shooting might have involved Armenian gangs. But they stressed that they have no evidence the victims were involved in gangs, noting that the case is in its early stages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The sources said the man attacked in a matter of moments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Updated at 7:35 p.m.: <\/strong>The shooting occurred at the Hot Spot Cafe, a Middle Eastern restaurant that customers have described as a mom-and-pop operation.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; My-Thuan Tran and Andrew Blankstein<\/p>\n<p>Photo: KTLA<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide-report\/map\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maptease\" class=\"asset asset-image   at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b-640wi\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in Valley Village on Saturday afternoon, killing four people and wounding another. Around 4:40 p.m., a lone gunman entered a restaurant on the 11650 block of Riverside Drive, said Los Angeles Police Officer Rosario Herrera. Three people were declared dead at the scene, police said. Two victims were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}