Breaking News: CCNY Alum--and "View" PA--Shot in Brooklyn
This morning, the ladies of "The View" announced that a staff member had been wounded in a gun battle. And she's one of our own.Whoopi Goldberg shared the news that Lourdes Guillen, a 25-year-old production assistant on "The View," had been shot in the stomach yesterday while defending her cousin at a bodega in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Guillen graduated from City College last year with a ad/pr degree and minor in journalism and is well known in the MCA department. A former member of The Campus editorial staff, she joined "The View" after interning at CNN and "Good Morning America."Guillen is in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a bullet lodged between her liver and kidney. She told Barbara Walters that she was in pain, but "would do it again."Goldberg, Walters and the rest of the talk show crew called Guillen's act heroic and wished her a speedy recovery. Click here to watch the segment on Guillen on "The View."Read more in the New York Post. “