Drive-By Shooting at Restaurant in Reseda Kills One : Crime: A reputed gang member dies and at least three customers are wounded in late-night attack. Three suspects are sought.

Henry Hagwood was buying takeout at a Popeye’s Fried Chicken restaurant in Reseda when an apparent drive-by shooting sent shots through the glass windows of the eatery, killing an alleged gang member and wounding at least three customers.

“Everybody hit the floor,” said Hagwood, 47, a father of eight from Tarzana who was struck in the neck by a bullet during the Saturday night shooting.

Hagwood was speaking from his hospital bed at Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Sunday where he was listed in fair condition. He said he simply was ordering food with his neighbor, Brian Henderson, 34, when about 10 shots were fired. He turned around and saw Samuel Barrios, 16, get hit in the chest.

“I saw him flying across the room,” Hagwood said, “and then I felt a sharp pain in my neck.”

Barrios died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, said Sgt. Bill Maarschalk of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Henderson was grazed by a bullet and cut by flying glass. He was treated and released at the scene, police said.

Hector Lopez, 16, was shot in the buttocks, police said, and was taken to Northridge Hospital, where he was listed in good condition.

Witnesses to the 10 p.m. shooting said three gunmen, with closely shaved heads and baggy clothing, displayed gang signs to pedestrians in the area about 20 minutes before the shooting.

They were still being sought Sunday night after fleeing in a mid-1980s, light-colored, four-door Toyota Corolla station wagon.

Police declined to speculate on the motives for the drive-by attack, saying that detectives were still investigating. But investigators said Barrios, the youth who was killed, was believed to be a gang member.

After the shooting, Hagwood lay on the floor, bleeding profusely from his neck. A restaurant worker threw a towel over the counter to him.

“They didn’t want to come out from behind the counter because we didn’t know if it was over,” Hagwood said.

When Hagwood got to his feet, he called his home as Henderson tried to stop the bleeding with the towel.

Hagwood said he wanted to be the one to tell his wife about the shooting.

“I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” said Gwen Flores, Hagwood’s wife. “I just kept telling myself not to get upset in front of the kids and just pray.”

Flores said her husband and Henderson left to get a late-night meal after watching a boxing match on television. The family had moved to Tarzana two years ago to get away from crime in the North Hollywood area.

“This is not a bad part of town,” said Hagwood. “You never hear about anything bad happening out here, until now.”