Jabril Metoyer appeared at a court hearing Thursday on charges related to two separate shootings that left three people injured in downtown Los Angeles in December.

Salvador Villa was working as an armed security guard at a Target store in downtown Los Angeles late last December when he confronted a suspected shoplifter.

The man was spotted leaving the Fig at 7th shopping center carrying two suitcases stuffed with merchandise. Villa said he and two other store employees tried to stop him.

Testifying at an L.A. County Superior Court court hearing Thursday, Villa was deadpan when asked whether anything strange happened next.

“Yeah,” Villa said. “He shot me.”

The suspect, Jabril Metoyer, faces multiple charges of attempted murder, robbery and attempted robbery. The Target incident, prose

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