Man Shot in Face at Track Meet on Reseda Campus
Athletes and spectators at a Reseda track meet were sent diving for cover Friday as a fistfight led to gunfire on the Cleveland High School campus and an 18-year-old man was shot in the face.
Ray Rice of Panorama City was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center and was expected to survive his injuries, Los Angeles police said. His condition was not immediately available. The bullet plowed along one cheek, hitting some teeth, police said.
Rice’s cousin, Jason Folse, said he and Rice were walking away from the meet when three youths followed them from the stands.
Words were exchanged and a fistfight broke out, Folse said. “Then I heard one of the guys yell, ‘Just shoot the fools!’ ”
Folse said he heard a shot, looked up and saw a handgun pointed toward him. “I just hit the ground,” he said. “Then I looked over and saw my cousin was shot.”
Police released few details about the 4:30 p.m. shooting, which took place on a service road in the middle of the Cleveland High campus off Strathern Street.
Folse, a 19-year-old student at Pierce College, said the attackers yelled out a gang affiliation as they fled the scene in a green Ford Mustang.
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