Crime & Safety

Mystery Shooting Victim Dies At Northridge Hospital

Police are working to identify a young man brought to a Northridge hospital with a bullet wound.

NORTHRIDGE, CA — Authorities Wednesday were investigating the shooting death of a young man who was brought to Northridge Hospital Medical Center with a gunshot wound.

The 18-year-old man was dropped off at the medical facility in the 18300 block of Roscoe Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and died later, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Authorities withheld the man's name, pending family notification.

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Information was not immediately available on who dropped the man off at the hospital or on the circumstances of the shooting.

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