Fullerton’s Anderson Shot

Rodney Anderson, a Cal State Fullerton freshman reserve guard, was critically wounded by gunshots fired by an unknown assailant Thursday evening on a street in his family’s neighborhood near Inglewood.

Anderson was listed in critical but stable condition on Friday at Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Anderson was standing outside an apartment complex just before 7 p.m. Thursday when the assailant approached, said Sgt. Craig Ditsch of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lennox station.

Anderson suffered three bullet wounds to his chest and right forearm from a small-caliber handgun, Ditsch said.

Brent Smedley, the basketball team’s trainer, said he spoke with one of Anderson’s attending physicians, who told Smedley that one of the bullets “severed the spinal cord at the C-7 level,” causing some paralysis.

The 6-foot-2, 180-pounder played in 24 games. He started once and was averaging 3.5 points.