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Teen-Ager Is Injured in Shooting Outside Party : Violence: Victim’s wound is described as superficial. Two suspects in the late-night attack in Thousand Oaks, both 18, are arrested.

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A late-night shooting on an ordinarily quiet Thousand Oaks cul-de-sac left one teen-ager wounded and two others in custody on suspicion of attempted murder, officials said Sunday.

The attack occurred late Saturday outside a party in the 200 block of Fox Hills Drive, just east of Los Robles Country Club. Sung Song, 18, of North Hollywood was shot in the foot as he fled from gunfire that erupted during the party.

Police said the shooters had left the gathering after fighting with party-goers, but returned armed with a small semiautomatic handgun.

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Another unidentified man was targeted by the shooters but was not hit, investigators said. Song suffered a “superficial” gunshot wound and declined treatment at the scene, authorities said.

Police responding to a report of shots fired arrived at the home at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that some of the party-goers had begun arguing earlier in the evening, but that several had then left the neighborhood on foot.

Investigators said a group of teen-agers armed with a handgun returned to the area in a car and opened fire on the crowd. Officials would not say Sunday whether they had recovered the weapon or how many shots were fired.

A Ventura County sheriff’s deputy spotted a vehicle matching the description provided by witnesses to the shooting and stopped the occupants for questioning.

Ryan Corbeil of Moorpark and William Salak of Thousand Oaks, both 18, are being held at Ventura County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, with bail set at $250,000 each. Salak was also arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, but sheriff’s officials Sunday did not discuss details of that allegation.

Corbeil and Salak are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Ventura County Municipal Court.

No one answered the telephone or the front door Sunday at the home where the party was held. Neighbors were surprised to hear of the violence on their street.

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“This is considered a very safe neighborhood,” said real estate investor Jack Davis, who lives near the shooting site. “There’s never been any problems over here.”

The weekend shooting is the latest in a series of violent acts that have recently struck Thousand Oaks, ranked by the FBI as one of the safest cities in the country with populations of more than 100,000.

Earlier this month, police said bat-wielding gang members attacked a group of teen-age girls at the Stagecoach Inn Park in Newbury Park during a melee involving 30 to 35 juveniles.

And in separate incidents over the summer, a man was killed and a woman was paralyzed in a gang shootout. Another man was stabbed in the neck. And a man shot at a group of men as he was riding by on a bicycle.

“The pattern of violence exists because kids have guns,” Councilwoman Judy Lazar said Sunday. “It’s probably one of the most frightening things for our residents.”

Lazar said the council just last week reviewed the option of including funding for an extra police car in its preliminary budget. But even more officers cannot prevent all violence, she said.

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“The addition of another police car will certainly help, but that won’t solve the problem,” she said. “Greater control over kids and less accessibility to guns are really more of a solution.”

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