LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday released video of an attempted daytime robbery in the Melrose area in hopes of catching the suspected driver.
According to LAPD, two suspects exited from an idling Dodge Avenger near Melrose Avenue and Vista Street at about 7:10 p.m. Monday. The video then shows the suspects confronting the victim with a handgun in hand.
The victim and the suspects seemed to exchange words before the victim produced a handgun, LAPD said in an apparent attempt to defend himself and the others in his group from the would-be robbery suspects, and shot at the suspects. Both the victims and the suspects fled the scene.
A short time later, 22-year-old Nicholas Brown and 28-year-old Markeil Hayes were taken into custody and were found to have sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Brown and Hayes, who were both on parole, were booked on suspicion of attempted robbery.
The driver of the vehicle, described as a Black man, was still at large Tuesday evening.
Anyone with information was asked to call Wilshire Robbery Detective J. Maloney at 213-922-8216.
