SANTA ANA : Gang Gunfire Wounds Woman Outside Home

A 28-year-old woman taking out the trash was shot in the neck Tuesday when a fusillade of gunfire fired from a car missed an intended victim, authorities said.

The woman, Sandra Alcozar, was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was reported in stable condition late Tuesday, police said.

Alcozar told police she was taking out the trash from her garage apartment just after 10 a.m., near the intersection of Olive Street and Cubbon Street. Through a wooden fence, she recognized a teen-ager, a local gang member, with a handgun walking down the opposite side of Cubbon.

Witnesses told police they saw a white Volkswagen driving in the same area about the same time. The occupants of the car drove past the youth with the gun and then made a U-turn, according to Sgt. Bob Clark.

As the firing began, Clark said, the boy ran across the street and Alcozar started running to her apartment. Inside, “she realized she had been shot,” Clark said.

Police believe four to six shots were fired from the car, and that the small-caliber bullet that struck Alcozar passed through the wooden fence before hitting her.

There were no arrests.