EAST HOLLYWOOD – One man is hospitalized after he was shot in East Hollywood Tuesday and two suspects are on the loose.

Los Angeles Police Department officers from the department’s Rampart Division responded at approximately 2:20 a.m. Tuesday to the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.

When they arrived at the scene, officers learned the victim – who police say is homeless- was inside his tent when the two suspects approached him and attempted to rob him, according to LAPD Officer Drake Madison.

When the victim refused to give the alleged robbers his property, one drew a gun and shot the victim, police said.

The victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition, Madison said.

The suspects ran away from the scene in an unknown direction.

There were no suspect

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