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Police were looking for a gunman on Sunday morning who shot dead another passenger on a pre-dawn subway train in Hollywood.
The fatal shooting occurred shortly after 5 a.m. as the Line B train stopped at the Hollywood and Vine station, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Witnesses told police that the gunman paced the train restlessly as it moved between stations and argued with a woman sitting next to him in the car, the statement said.
After the train entered the station, the man shot the woman and then “got off the train on Hollywood Boulevard in an unknown direction,” police said.
Other passengers performed CPR before police arrived, according to the City News Service, but the victim, who has not been identified, died in a hospital.
The suspect was described as a Latino man wearing a blue jacket, blue shorts, a black hat and a surgical mask.
There are cameras on subway cars and platforms, said Rick Jager, a spokesperson for Metro.
“All of this video will be turned over to the LAPD to aid their investigation,” Jager said.
The station was closed for more than three hours to allow crime scene technicians and homicide investigators to collect evidence, Jager said.
LAPD has asked anyone with information to contact West Bureau homicide investigators at (213) 382-9470.
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