Show 8 shot in stop bus-stop shooting Victoria Kim Paul Jean-Paul Renaud Richard Winton Los Angeles Times Five children and three adults were shot Wednesday afternoon by a gunman who opened fire at a busy south Los Angeles bus stop minutes after classes were dismissed at a nearby school In a scene of chaos that authorities are still trying to piece together witnesses described a gunman who seemingly appeared from nowhere and began spraying the crowd As bystanders dove to the ground some adults swept up children in the path of gunfire Some witnesses told police the man had been on a bus and argued with someone after getting off But others said he was already in the crowd Police were investigating the possibility that the gunman had an intended target and caught others in a spray of bullets A year old girl the most seriously injured was shot through the chest and was in stable condition at Childrens Children's Hospital late Wednesday officials said Tomasa Gutierrez 32 had just gotten off offa a bus and was walking among dozens of students near Vernon Vemon and Central when she heard a volley of shots A girl in front of her collapsed in her heramis heranus anus amis wounded She scooped up the girl girland girland girland and rushed her back to nearby George Washington Carver Middle School Gutierrez said It was a little girl she said I had her in my arms anns until the paramedics came Guadalupe Olivos a 13 year-old year eighth grader at atthe atthe atthe the school was crossing the intersection shortly after 3 pm p.m. when the gunfire exploded Everyone just dropped he said Investigators were unsure of the motive for forthe the shoo shooting ing and were still searching for forthe forthe forthe the gunman Wednesday night Witnesses initially told police a black man between 18 and 24 years old fired about 15 rounds from a semiautomatic pistol into the group of blacks and Hispanics many of whom were waiting for buses in front of a food fast-food restaurant Afterward the gunman who police said was wearing a white T shirt and appeared to tobe tobe tobe be about foot 7 and pounds calmly walked away This area has a density of foot foo traffic like few places s sin in the city There were tons of people and tons of traffic around said Deputy Chi Chief f Sergio Diaz said It appears he was shooting indiscriminately into the crowd added Andy Smith It is not clear who he was shooting at In addition to the 12 year-old year four other children ranging in age from 1 10 Q and 14 were grazed by bullets as were were a year 49 old woman and two men ages 48 and 68 Six victims remained in the hospital late Wednesday night including three children |