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Five suspects sought after man is shot near Venice Beach boardwalk

Pedestrians walk across Windward Avenue as fog hovers over Venice Beach in March.
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By Brittny Mejia
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Police were searching for five suspects after a man was shot near the busy Venice Beach boardwalk Friday night.

Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 9:20 p.m. in the 200 block of Ocean Front Walk found a man suffering from gunshot wounds, said Los Angeles police Officer Mike Lopez.

The man was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, Lopez said. He was not identified.

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According to several media reports, a gunman fired into a crowd during a fireworks show on the boardwalk.

Authorities did not provide descriptions of the suspects.

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Brittny Mejia is a Metro reporter covering federal courts for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote narrative pieces with a strong emphasis on the Latino community and others that make up the diversity of L.A. and California. Mejia was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021 in local reporting for her investigation with colleague Jack Dolan that exposed failures in Los Angeles County’s safety-net healthcare system that resulted in months-long wait times for patients, including some who died before getting appointments with specialists. She joined The Times in 2014.

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