Pipe-Wielding Suspects Beat Man On North Hollywood Bus

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — Police are hoping surveillance footage will help them track down a pipe-wielding suspect and two accomplices who fought with a man on an Orange Line bus in North Hollywood, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition.

The attack took place about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday inside the bus near the stop at Lankershim and Chandler boulevards, LAPD Officer Sal Ramirez said.

The driver pulled over at that Orange Line stop. The injured man was still on the bus but the three male suspects had fled by the time officers from the North Hollywood Division arrived at the scene, Ramirez said.

Police withheld the name of the victim, who's in his 50s.

Detectives were reviewing surveillance video from inside the bus and were canvassing the area for other footage, Ramirez said.

Anyone with information on the attack was asked to call the LAPD's North Hollywood Division at (818) 623-4016. Tipsters can also call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS.

City News Service