LOS ANGELES – A suspect shot by a security guard during an attempted armed robbery of a recently opened marijuana dispensary in South Los Angeles was hospitalized Tuesday.

After an initial struggle for the suspect’s handgun, the security guard fired his weapon, wounding the man in his late-20s in the lower abdomen, said Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Darrell Belphius of the 77th Street station.

The attempted robbery occurred at the storefront at 7404 S. Western Ave., between 8-8.30 p.m. Monday.

Both suspects escaped the scene. The suspect who had been shot was taken by an unknown person to Centinela Hospital Medical Center, where he was arrested, Belphius said.

The suspect was transferred to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Belphius said.

Belphius said one of the two suspects pulled a handgun after entering the dispensary.

The attempted robbery was captured on an in-store video camera at dispensary that has been open for less than two weeks, Belphius said.