Huntington Beach man shot near home

Huntington Beach police are asking for the public’s help to find a gunman who shot and critically injured a 41-year-old man near his home Friday morning.

At 7:42 a.m. a man with a mustache in his 30s wearing a white T-shirt came up behind Bruce Wickland Porter Jr. and shot him in the neck and face while Porter was walking to his car in the 8200 block of Deerfield Drive, Lt. Terry Lindsey said. Though investigators do not have an exact description of the gunman’s vehicle, witnesses indicated it may have been a white, four-door Saturn with chrome wheels and a sun roof.

The shooter was already gone when Mark Revis, who says he made the initial 911 call, ran out to the street.

“There was a loud pop, then a screech of tires,” Revis said. “I heard the guy moaning. He was pretty bloody, but he was semi-talking and asking for help.”

Crimes like this are unheard of in the area, a place where even theft and burglary are rarities, neighbors said.

“This is one of the safest neighborhoods I’ve ever been in, aside from maybe Balboa Island,” nearby resident Bill Johnson said.

Revis also thinks the neighborhood is generally safe.

Porter lives with father Bruce Porter Sr., neighbors said. The younger Porter has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of nine drug-related charges over the last 15 years, according to Orange County Superior Court records.

Porter was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana where he was in critical condition, Lindsey said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Patrick Ellis at (714) 536-5971