Restaurant Owner Is Critically Wounded
A man who bought a Pioneer Take Out in Sunland just six weeks ago was shot and critically wounded in his restaurant during what may have been a botched robbery, Los Angeles police said Friday.
Louis Lim, 35, of Baldwin Park was listed in critical condition at Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills.
Lim was shot once in the chest about 3:15 p.m. Thursday after a man entered the office of the restaurant at 8668 Foothill Blvd., Detective Jim Vojtecky said Friday. He said another man, apparently a lookout, waited in the lobby of the restaurant during the shooting.
Both men fled in a car found abandoned by Hansen Dam a short time later, Vojtecky said.
No money was taken, but the men apparently were planning to rob the restaurant, he said.
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