A 29-year-old man accused of plowing his car into a crowd outside an East Hollywood nightclub on Saturday morning, injuring more than 30 people, has an extensive criminal history in neighboring Orange County, including a previous conviction for an unprovoked attack on a Laguna Beach grocery store employee that he told an officer was driven by racial hatred.

Fernando Ramirez was pulled from his car and shot by an unidentified gunman after allegedly driving a Nissan Versa into a crowd outside The Vermont Hollywood, a music venue located on West Santa Monica Boulevard near Vermont Avenue.

Ramirez reportedly had been kicked out of the venue for fighting, then returned was kicked out again for being intoxicated and disruptive, according to police and news reports. He responded, police say,

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