Teen-Ager Arrested in Hospital Shootings
A reputed gang member suspected of spraying the emergency room of a Boyle Heights hospital with shotgun blasts last weekend, wounding a woman who was standing outside, has been arrested, police said Friday.
Pedro Chairez, 19, was arrested early Thursday at his family’s residence in Aliso Village, Lt. J.R. Ferguson said. Chairez was booked for attempted murder and held without bail.
He is suspected of being one of two gang members who fired into the emergency room of White Memorial Hospital, where a rival gang member was being treated. No other suspects have been arrested in the attack, which occurred two weeks after a gunfight in the street left bullet holes in one of the hospital’s walls.
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