Landlord shot while evicting tenant in Vermont-Slauson area

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A man was in the hospital after he was shot while evicting a tenant from a house in the Vermont-Slauson area of Los Angeles.

The shooting was reported at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at 4408 W. 59th St., according to Officer A. Delatorre of the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations Center.

The 52-year-old landlord was attempting to evict the man from the property when the man allegedly shot him with a handgun, Delatorre said.

The wounded landlord was taken to a hospital by paramedics and had stable vital signs, he said.

The suspect was at large.

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