Man Shot, Wounded in Traffic Argument

A 20-year-old man was shot and wounded Sunday after a traffic dispute turned violent in a shopping center parking lot, police said.

Russell Lee Olivarez of Santa Ana was hospitalized in stable condition with a single gunshot wound to the lower left abdomen, Police Sgt. Dwight Moore said. He was fired upon five times with a small-caliber weapon by an assailant in a dark Hyundai automobile about 5:30 p.m., Moore said.

Olivarez got into a quarrel with three people in the Hyundai, apparently over a traffic dispute, and got out to confront them in a shopping center at 15553 Brookhurst St., near McFadden Avenue, Moore said. One of the three fired the shots and all of them fled, Moore said. They were still at large Sunday night.