Hollywood Club Crash: What We Know About the Drivers and Men Who Fired the Shoot

Police continued to investigate a violent crash outside the East Hollywood club on Monday, with 36 people injured and the driver injured by gunshot wounds.

A driver ploughed a crowd outside a nightclub in Hollywood, Vermont, about 2 a.m. Saturday, injured dozens of club players, pedestrians and vendors on the sidewalk outside.

Los Angeles police said the driver was pulled out of the vehicle by a crowd after the collision, and one of them pulled a gun and shot the driver.

While the gunman is still outstanding, the driver identified as Fernando Ramirez was detained. Videos at the scene showed Ramirez beat the bloody and the police took him away.

That’s all we know so far.

Who is the suspected driver?

Ramirez, 29, a club customer, was kicked out but returned to the area around 2 a.m., LAPD officials said. The vehicle attacked street vendors and dozens of late-night club competitors, causing multiple medical emergencies and causing fear and anger in the crowd.

LAPD officials said onlookers pulled Ramirez out of his car and attacked him – the video showed him being punched and kicked – at some point, he was shot.

Police said he had a stable condition after undergoing surgery on Sunday. He was also arrested for alleged attacks with deadly weapons whose force could cause serious physical harm.

Ramirez had spent months in prison before the Saturday morning attack.

On January 10, 2020, he was sentenced to four years in prison on a jury charge of serious injury, violation of civil rights and hate crimes and suffered a hate crime for assaulting employees of the Black Total Foods.

However, in January 2021, the Court of Appeal overturned part of the verdict after the court found a conversation with an official who violated Ramirez’s Miranda rights. The Court of Appeal reversed civil rights violations and hate crimes and raised its verdict, but maintained a serious battery conviction because it was “unaffected by Miranda’s mistakes.”

In 2020, Ramirez was convicted of a 2019 assault on a police officer and refused to be arrested and was sentenced to 180 days in prison.

In 2021, he was convicted of assault on aggravated bodily injury and two counts of resistance to arrest and was sentenced to 194 days in prison and a one-year probation sentence. In the same year, he pleaded guilty to his spouse’s injury to the system and was sentenced to three years of probation for a 234-day prison sentence.

Kimberly Edds, a spokesman for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, said Ramirez was waiting to drive under the allegations of attack on the impact and had separate domestic battery charges, including a violation of a protection order caused by the 2022 incident, and also a violation of an Orange County court.

Who is the alleged gunman?

Police said after Ramirez was pulled out of the vehicle and after it was placed on food supplier equipment, someone pulled out a gun and shot him backward.

LAPD spokesman Norma Eisenman said Sunday that the people who shot Ramirez were still the whole. Police described the suspicious gunman as Latino, about 5 feet 7 and 150 to 170 pounds. He wore a blue Dodge jacket, a light blue jersey with “5” and blue jeans on it. His ears and goatee had a kind of instrument – a body jewellery. Anyone with information can call the Crime Blocker by calling (800) 222-8477.

What happened to the victim?

At least 36 victims were injured, ranging from mild pain to severe fractures and tear. Several people were hit by vehicles, and some were temporarily trapped under them. At least 23 people were hospitalized.

Given the size of the crowd, LAPD Captain Ben Fernandez said the incident could easily become a massive casualty incident.

“Honestly, I believe this is a miracle,” Fernandez told NBC-4 News.

A witness told ABC-7 News that he saw dozens of people after the crash. Another said it was “like a movie.”

“You’ll see shoes flying, you’ll see changes, money, and the hot dog stand outside the bar… they’re beaten up,” the witness said.

Eduardo Lopez, who worked from a nightclub from a taco truck on the street earlier Saturday, said he heard the crash and the screams that followed.

He told NBC-4 that he saw people running and “a lot of people were injured.”

After the incident, the club issued a statement.

“We are very sad about the tragic incident that happened in the early hours of Saturday,” the Vermont Hollywood Club posted in a statement online and outside the door. “We are working closely with law enforcement to ensure that the person responsible for this horrible act is fully responsible.”