Published September 3, 2002
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A passenger in a car driven by Chicago Bulls guard and ex-University of Michigan star Jalen Rose was hospitalized yesterday after being shot in the face during an attempted carjacking.
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The NBA player was unhurt and the passenger's injury was not life-threatening, Los Angeles police Officer Ed Funes said.
The pair were traveling in the 2002 Bentley Azure in the westside community of Brentwood around 3 a.m., Funes said. A Cadillac Escalade pulled up behind them and a man got out and approached the passenger side of the Bentley.
"The suspect pointed a gun at Rose's vehicle and told him to give up the car," Funes said.
Rose, 29, sped away but the suspect started firing, striking the 34-year-old passenger, Funes said.
Authorities withheld the passenger's name because the suspect is still at large and his motive remains under investigation, Funes said.
"We don't want to put their safety in jeopardy," he said.
Rose, who was part of the Wolverines' vaunted "Fab-Five" in the early 1990s, was traded in February from the Indiana Pacers to the Chicago Bulls.
"The police are investigating the matter, and we have no further comment at this time," Rose spokeswoman Alyson Sadofsky said by telephone from her office in Washington, D.C.
