Update: Feb. 15 – 8:30 a.m.
A security guard at Etz Jacob synagogue/ Ohel Chana Girls High School has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon with a firearm, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The guard has been identified as 44-year-old Edduin Zelayagrunfeld. The incident occurred around noon on Feb. 14, on Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District, when he allegedly shot 45-year-old Orange County transgender woman and Youtube personality, Zhoie Perez in the leg. Perez was recording video of the area at the time.
An eyewitness posted on twitter: “Nut case security guard just shot a innocent person on the sidewalk for filming with a camera. Yes, you read correctly. Shot a person on the sidewalk from behind a fence.”
Another person posted on twitter that it was a man who was shot and he is ‘conscious and breathing. Transported 2 Hosp.”
The following video was reportedly taken by the victim at the time and posted on Youtube by user Funny Potato Live. (Please note, explicit language is used in this video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=XcHzl7WsM0w
A self-described “1st Amendment auditor,” Perez held a brief news conference after being discharged from the hospital where she described her leg injury as a “deep graze.” The Los Angeles Times reported that Perez said, ““I was just filming the exterior of the synagogue here, and getting a lot of, like, the architecture and all that, and the guard came out and just started freaking out, started putting his hand on his gun.”
— Additional reporting by Ryan Torok and Jewish Journal staff.
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