Woman Shot in Face With ‘Paint Ball’ Gun
In the latest in a series of attacks in the western San Fernando Valley, a Canoga Park woman was shot in the face with a “paint ball” gun of the type designed for mock combat games, and she may lose sight in her eye, Los Angeles police said Thursday.
Young men who appeared to think of the attacks as a prank shot Irma Aparicio, 23, in the right eye about 4 p.m. Wednesday as she waited at a bus stop in Woodland Hills, police said.
Aparicio was treated at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Woodland Hills for a “critical injury” to her eye and then was transferred to County-USC Medical Center, where she was treated by specialists, said a county hospital spokesman.
Several hours earlier on Wednesday, a pedestrian was shot in the back with a paint ball about a mile away in the 21000 block of Sherman Way near De Soto Avenue, police said.
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