Woman shot in North Hollywood; suspect flees

A woman is in the hospital Friday after she was shot in the leg by an assailant in North Hollywood.

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The shooting was reported at 10:55 p.m. Thursday and Los Angeles Police Department officers from the North Hollywood Division responded to Fulcher Avenue near Burbank Boulevard. When they arrived, officers found the woman at the back of a home with a gunshot wound to the leg, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.

Los Angeles Fire Department personnel took the victim to a hospital in stable condition. The suspect left the scene in an unknown direction.

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