LOS ANGELES — A 28-year-old man wanted for shooting a driver accused of plowing into a crowd of pedestrians in East Hollywood was arrested Sunday in Redondo Beach.
ABC7 reported Efrain Villalobos of Lawndale was arrested by Redondo Beach police and turned over to Los Angeles Police Department detectives about 1:15 p.m. Sunday.
Villalobos is suspected of shooting 29-year-old Fernando Ramirez in the lower back during a chaotic scene outside a nightclub in the early hours of July 19, according to the LAPD.
Officers responded around 2 that morning to the 1000 block of North Vermont Avenue, where a mass casualty incident had been reported involving at least 37 victims.
Ramirez had been kicked out of the nightclub for being disruptive before he crashed into the crowd, police sources told