Westfield Century City Mall Shooting Suspect Arrested In Maryland

LOS ANGELES, CA — A man suspected in a fatal shooting in January outside a restaurant at the Westfield Century City mall was arrested in Maryland and returned to Los Angeles, where he's being held on a $4 million warrant, police reported Monday.

Brandon Hinton, 26, was arrested in Baltimore on March 16 by FBI agents, and was extradited to Los Angeles on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

He's expected to be arraigned some time this week.

The shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at the mall in the 10200 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. Ryan Deshane Givens, 29, of Los Angeles, was shot several times and died at a hospital.

According to multiple reports from the scene of the crime, two groups of about 10 people each began arguing inside Javier's, a busy restaurant/bar, and the shooting occurred outside the business.

Detectives tracked a "blood trail through the mall," LAPD Detective John Radke said then.

"There was some sort of verbal altercation that escalated to some females having a fight that later spilled out -- outside the restaurant -- to possibly some men having a fight," Radke said. "And then, at one point, a member of that group armed himself with a firearm and he chased the victim around the outside of the mall and shot him multiple times."

—City News Service

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