3 May Have Been Shot by Member of Own Gang

Three men who were shot over the weekend on a Van Nuys street while running from a group of bat-wielding youths may have been wounded by a member of their own white supremacist “skinheads” gang, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.

No arrests have been made in the shooting, which occurred about midnight Saturday after three skinheads got into a shouting match with one black and two Latino youths at a market, police said. The skinheads were chased through a park to a nearby party at a house, but were shot from behind before they got there, police said.

The shooting left Geremi Rineman, 18, of Huntington Beach, paralyzed from the neck down, police said. Ashley Brown, 21, of Claremont, was shot in the shoulder and an unidentified 17-year-old Glendale youth was hit in the ankle, police said.

Police said one witness reported seeing a young man, described as a skinhead because of his shaven head, firing a gun at the six people running toward the house where the party was being held. Only the skinheads were struck.