Hollywood liquor store robbery suspect caught in Las Vegas

LOS ANGELES

Investigators say 21-year-old Justin Brooks was arrested without incident at a Las Vegas residence and was scheduled for extradition to Southern California.

Police say Brooks tried to hold up a store at Hollywood and Winona boulevards Monday morning and shot a clerk in the arm.

The neighborhood was closed off as officers searched for the gunman, who escaped without cash.

The clerk was hospitalized, treated and released.

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