The man believed to have called police on himself after a deadly weekend shooting in the drive-thru of a McDonald’s in East Hollywood has been booked for manslaughter, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said Monday morning.
The shooting, which also wounded a second person, began with an altercation at the fast food spot on the corner of Western Avenue and Romaine Street around 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
Preliminary information from witnesses indicated that an argument started in the drive-thru lane when one car hit another. As the fight broke out, one of the people involved pulled out a gun and opened fire, striking a man in the chest and a woman in the leg.
A GoFundMe to help the family with funeral expenses identified the victim killed in the shooting as 36-year-old Feliciano “Felix” Curiel.
Tony Molina, the brother of the woman who was shot, said that she and Felix were planning to get married soon. “We did a lot of cool family trips together, and now it’s like, everything was taken in a flash,” Molina said.
LAPD Officer Drake Madison identified the suspect on Monday as 21-year-old Humberto Delgado. Madison told KTLA’s Erin Myers that Delgado was booked for felony voluntary manslaughter.
Video footage obtained by KTLA showed Delgado being detained by officers in the parking lot after Saturday night’s shooting.
Witnesses on the night of the shooting said that Delgado told officers he was acting in self-defence, but investigators did not confirm that.
Delgado is being held on $100,000 bail.
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