His wife fears gang members who she says frequent the area around their Christian bookstore shot her husband.The victim's wife, who does not want to be identified, fears gang members who frequent the area around their Christian bookstore shot her husband.A Christian bookstore owner is now paralyzed after he was shot right outside his business near MacArthur Park, and the suspect remains on the run.
Before he could leave in his car with his children, a gunman walked up to his bookstore's window and shot him for no apparent reason. The suspect fled the scene and has not been found. "I'm praying to God that he can give his wife and his kids the support to move forward and to our entire family, because this news is very devastating," his cousin Nora Flores said.