Overview
- Surveillance video shows a masked man entering the Laundry King with a metal pipe or rod and demanding access to the safe.
- The attacker shoved customers and threw the owner’s wife to the floor, leaving her injured according to the owner.
- A customer called 911, and LAPD officers arrived quickly and arrested the suspected assailant at the scene.
- The owner says the laundromat emptied immediately after the violence and that he operates five Laundry King locations in the area.
- He already employs a guard nightly from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and is weighing round-the-clock security as reporting cites elevated North Hollywood crime rates.