McDonald’s Shooting Leaves One Dead In Hollywood, Suspect Charged

LOS ANGELES, CA — Criminal charges were filed Tuesday against a 21- year-old man who allegedly shot a man to death and wounded a woman during an argument in the parking lot of a McDonald's in East Hollywood.

Humberto Delgado was charged with one count each of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, along with allegations that he personally used a firearm and inflicted great bodily injury, according to court records.

Officers were dispatched at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday to a shooting in the area of Romaine Street and Western Avenue, according to Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section.

Paramedics took the two victims to a hospital, where the 36-year-old man was pronounced dead and the 35-year-old woman had stable vital signs, Eisenman said. The woman suffered a gunshot wound to her left leg, according to KeyNews.tv.

The dead man was identified as Feliciano "Felix" Curiel. He was engaged to the woman who was shot, Kerin Gonzalez-Molina. Gonzalez-Medina told reporters that the couple had gone to McDonald's for a late-night snack when the suspect accused them of hitting his car.

"He (the suspect) pushed (Curiel) with his body, and that's when my fiancé got mad and swung at him," Gonzalez-Molina told ABC7. "And when he swung at him, the other guy pulled out the gun, which I didn't even see. My guy just went in front of me like that, and that's when I heard the shots going and I felt that I was hit.

"... He pretty much, kind of saved my life as well. He died as a hero. I just wish things were different."

Delgado was arrested at 4 a.m. that day and has remained behind bars since then, jail records show.

City News Service