LAPD Releases Video of Attempted Robbery, Shooting and Calls on Public to Help Identify Driver [VIDEO]

*The Los Angeles Police Department has released a video of an attempted robbery hoping the public can identify the driver. 

The incident occurred Monday in the Melrose area at about 7:10 p.m. Here’s more from the CBS Local:

According to LAPD, two suspects exited from an idling Dodge Avenger. The video then shows the suspects confronting the victim with a handgun in hand. The victim and the suspects seemed to exchange words before the victim produced a handgun, LAPD said in an apparent attempt to defend himself and the others in his group from the would-be robbery suspects, and shot at the suspects. Both the victims and the suspects fled the scene.

Watch the moment via the clip below.

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“Words were apparently exchanged, and the victim ultimately produces a handgun, apparently to defend himself and others in his group from the would-be robbery suspects,” LAPD wrote in a press release.

According to the report, 22-year-old Nicholas Brown and 28-year-old Markeil Hayes, who were both on parole, sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Per FOX LA, both were taken into custody and booked on suspicion of attempted robbery. Brown sustained a gunshot injury to the upper left thigh. Hayes sustained a gunshot wound to the right calf.

The driver of the vehicle, described as a Black man, is reportedly still at large.

Police are calling on anyone with information to reach out to Wilshire Robbery Detective J. Maloney at 213-922-8216.

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