Alzheimer’s patient reunited with family An elderly...

Alzheimer’s patient reunited with family

An elderly woman who went missing from the Huntington Beach Mall

on Saturday was later found at a 24 Hour Fitness center, several

miles away, police said.

Ermalinda Serafin, a 78-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease,

wandered away while shopping with her daughters at about 4:40 p.m.

Saturday, police said.

Mall security searched for Serafin for 2 1/2 hours, police said.

“She had just walked and got disoriented,” Huntington Beach Police

Sgt. Dave Bunetta.

Serafin was safely reunited with her family when 24 Hour Fitness

employees near Springdale Street and Warner Avenue found the elderly

woman, Bunetta said.

Driver reports shooting on Queens Lane

A shooting was reported by a man driving through the 17300 block

of Queens Lane at 11:45 p.m. Friday night, police said.

“There was a passerby that called and said that he thought he saw

some [men] chasing a car and throwing beer bottles at it and possibly

taking two shots at [the car],” Huntington Beach Police Sgt. Dave

Bunetta.

The passerby said he saw one of the men pull out a revolver and

fire one or two shots at the car.

Police said the witness reported that the car that was shot at was

a light gray or silver Honda or Toyota.

No other witnesses were found, but when police arrived at the

scene, they saw what appeared to be several broken bottles on the

street and the sidewalk, Bunetta said.