Police Identify Shooting Victims

Los Angeles police are investigating two separate shooting incidents, one fatal, that happened within half an hour of each other early Sunday morning at two North Hills fast-food restaurants.

Authorities, who suspect both are gang-related, have made no arrests in either case.

Detectives said the first involved the shooting of a 20-year-old man in the McDonald’s restaurant parking lot at Sepulveda and Roscoe boulevards.

Santos Ochoa was shot several times in the face, neck and wrist by someone firing a 9-millimeter handgun, police said.

Ochoa was taken to Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, where he was listed in serious but stable condition, police said.

On Monday police detectives identified the victim of the second incident as Francisco Ramirez, 17, of Pacoima.

Ramirez was fatally shot in the chest during a fight that broke out between he and a group of youths in front of a burger stand near Roscoe Boulevard and Haskell Avenue, LAPD Det. Marshall White said.

Pacoima resident Edward Maldonado, 19, a friend of Ramirez, was also stabbed in the chest during the confrontation, White said.