Orange : Gunfight at Intersection Leaves One Man Injured

Police Monday were investigating a shoot-out between two carloads of young men that left one teen-ager injured.

The incident took place about 8:20 p.m. Sunday just after four young men had left a carnival at St. Callistus Catholic Church on Lewis Boulevard, authorities said.

While Cong Phi Truong, 18, and his friends--Thuan Anh Phan, 23, of Las Vegas, and Khoa Van Nguyen, 18, and Vu Hong Nguyen, 18, both of Garden Grove--were stopped in their car at the intersection of Lewis Boulevard and El Prado Avenue, another car pulled alongside and its occupants began firing, Orange Police Department spokesman Bob Gustafson said.

The victims returned the fire, Gustafson said, and the assailants’ car, described as a white, four-door Toyota, fled northbound on Lewis.

Truong, 18, of Garden Grove was the only one injured. He was in fair condition Monday at UCI Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his left arm.

Truong’s friends drove to a telephone in Garden Grove and called the police. The youths said there had been four to six gunmen--all Asian men--in the other car, but they said they did not recognize them and had had no confrontations with them or anyone else at the church carnival, Gustafson said.