Billiards Customer Shot Upon Leaving Hall
A customer leaving Tri-Q Billiards was shot in the head Saturday evening during a violent altercation in front of the pool hall, authorities said.
Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Jay Mendez said a dark-colored Honda Accord drove up to the billiard parlor at 11951 Beach Blvd. about 7:45 p.m. Two men got out and began smashing out the windows and slashing the tires of another Honda Accord parked in front of the hall, Mendez said.
Then a Toyota Supra pulled up. A passenger fired three shots, Mendez said. Two of the shots hit the building and a third hit a customer in the head, he said.
The customer, who was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange for treatment, had not been identified late Saturday.
Tony Long Vo, who was working at the hall during the shooting, said the men who damaged the car were angry at another man playing pool at the hall.
“They don’t like each other, so they came to smash the car,” Long Vo said. “The guy who got shot was just an accident.”
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